Historic Sites, Nevada
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- Austin — Historic · Lander County, NV
1860s silver boomtown near Nevada's geographic center and a landmark stop on US-50 (the Loneliest Road). Once rivaled Virginia City in mineral output; Stokes…
- Beowawe — Historic · Eureka County, NV
1868 Central Pacific railroad town in northern Eureka County (Paiute name for the valley ‘gate’). Gravelly Ford and the Maiden’s Grave link it to the Califor…
- Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park — Historic · Nye County, NV
The only place on Earth where you can see an intact ghost town and 225-million-year-old marine reptile fossils in the same park. The fossil shelter protects …
- Blair Junction — Historic · Esmeralda County, NV
Former Tonopah & Goldfield Railroad junction west of Coaldale where the Blair branch left the main line for the Silver Peak country. Today it is a lonely des…
- Boulder City Historic District — Historic · Clark County, NV
Boulder City Historic District is a historic district in Clark County, NV, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983, recognized for signifi…
- Bowers Mansion — Historic · Washoe County, NV
Opulent 1863 Comstock-era mansion built by Sandy and Eilley Bowers from Virginia City silver fortune, set on the east slope of the Sierra in Washoe Valley. N…
- California Trail Interpretive Center — Historic · Elko County, NV
BLM interpretive center on the historic California Trail at I-80 Hunter Exit 292, about 8 miles west of Elko. Free indoor exhibits, dioramas, and outdoor tra…
- Cold Springs Pony Express Station — Historic · Churchill County, NV
National Register ruins of an 1860–61 Pony Express station on Loneliest Road (US-50), with one of the best-preserved stone station shells on the Nevada segme…
- Contact — Historic · Elko County, NV
Copper-mining community on US-93 south of Jackpot, active from the 1890s with hotel, newspaper, and smelter-era boom, then largely emptied after a 1942 fire.…
- Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park — Historic · Douglas County, NV
Preserved Carson Valley ranch core from the 1857 Dangberg family homestead, with eight historic structures set against the Sierra front. Day-use park grounds…
- Dayton — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Nevada’s first gold-discovery settlement (1849) and early Lyon County seat on the Carson River. Gold Canyon mills processed Comstock ore; boardwalk Old Town,…
- Derby Dam — Historic · Storey County, NV
First major diversion structure of the U.S. Reclamation Service (Bureau of Reclamation), completed 1905 on the Truckee River east of Reno. The low concrete d…
- Devil's Gate — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Narrow metamorphic reef that funneled every wagon, stage, and ore team onto the Comstock Lode. Nevada State Historical Marker No. 223 marks the gorge where G…
- Double Springs — Historic · Douglas County, NV
Roadside historic waystation site on the old Esmeralda road at a pair of natural springs south of Gardnerville / Carson Valley—also known as Round Tent Ranch…
- Elgin Schoolhouse State Historic Site — Historic · Lincoln County, NV
One-room schoolhouse in Rainbow Canyon that educated grades 1–8 from 1922 to 1967, preserved as a Nevada State Parks historic site with period furnishings. O…
- Empire and the Carson River Mills — Historic · Carson City, NV
Nevada Historical Marker No. 1 at US-50 and Akron Way interprets Empire and the great Comstock-era stamp mills on the Carson River—Mexican, Yellow Jacket, Br…
- Eureka — Historic · Eureka County, NV
One of Nevada's best-preserved mining boomtowns on US-50. Silver-lead discovery (1864) made Eureka second only to the Comstock; the Eureka Historic District …
- Extraterrestrial Hwy / Rachel — Historic · Lincoln County, NV
Official Extraterrestrial Highway (SR-375) runs ~98 miles through remote Lincoln County past the restricted Nellis Range complex. The tiny town of Rachel anc…
- Fort Churchill — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Adobe ruins of Nevada's first U.S. Army post, built in 1860 after the Pyramid Lake War to protect the Overland Trail and Pony Express. Now a state historic p…
- Fort Ruby — Historic · White Pine County, NV
Civil War–era U.S. Army post (Camp Ruby, 1862–1869) guarding the Overland Trail, stage, and telegraph routes at the east entrance to Overland Pass from Ruby …
- Gerlach — Historic · Washoe County, NV
Tiny railroad and desert-gateway town at the edge of the Black Rock Desert—founded with the Western Pacific line, home to the National Register Gerlach Water…
- Golconda — Historic · Humboldt County, NV
California Emigrant Trail landmark and Central Pacific Railroad shipping station on the Humboldt River, famous for mineral hot springs that once supported a …
- Hiko — Historic · Lincoln County, NV
Pahranagat Valley agrarian hamlet and former Lincoln County seat (1867–1871) on SR 318. Silver-mill ruins, cemetery, and a red-rock general-store building ma…
- Hoover Dam — Historic · Clark County, NV
1930s Bureau of Reclamation arch-gravity dam on the Colorado River at the Nevada–Arizona line. Visitor center, powerplant tours, memorials, and the dam roadw…
- Jacobsville — Historic · Lander County, NV
First Lander County seat (1862–63) on the Reese River west of Austin — Overland Stage, Pony Express, and early telegraph relay stop founded by sheriff George…
- Lehman Caves — Historic · Great Basin NP, NV
Stunning marble caverns within Great Basin National Park with rare cave shields, stalactites, and a gothic palace room. Stays 50 degrees year-round. Ranger-g…
- Lovelock Cave Historic Site — Historic · Churchill County, NV
BLM-managed rock shelter on the edge of the Humboldt Sink, famed as the “Cradle of Great Basin Archaeology.” Guano miners and later UC Berkeley and other tea…
- Middlegate Station — Historic · Churchill County, NV
Living roadhouse on US-50 (the Loneliest Road) at historic Middlegate, roughly 45–50 miles east of Fallon. Site sits on a corridor used since Pony Express / …
- Mormon Station State Historic Park — Historic · Douglas County, NV
Nevada’s first permanent non-native settlement site in Genoa, founded in 1851 as a California Trail trading post before the Sierra crossing. The state histor…
- Mountain City — Historic · Elko County, NV
Far-northeastern Nevada mining town on the Owyhee River, founded 1869 as Cope after placer and lode discoveries, renamed Mountain City the same year. Boom-er…
- Mountain House — Historic · Douglas County, NV
Historical stage-and-ranch locale in southern Carson Valley / Topaz approaches, recorded as a populated place on early maps. A thin Douglas County historic f…
- Old Las Vegas Mormon Fort State Historic Park — Historic · Clark County, NV
Nevada’s oldest Anglo-American building site: the 1855 adobe fort established by Mormon missionaries at the Las Vegas Springs, later a ranch and stop on the …
- Panaca Charcoal Kilns — Historic · Lincoln County, NV
Pair of 1870s stone beehive charcoal kilns high in the Cedar Range east of Panaca. Built to supply high-quality charcoal to Bullionville and Pioche smelters,…
- Pigeon Spring Stamp Mill — Historic · Esmeralda County, NV
1890–1907 ten-stamp mill and short-lived settlement on the Lida–Palmetto road, with mill ruins still visible from SR-266. A small camp once held a store, sal…
- Ragtown — Historic · Churchill County, NV
Abandoned 1854 Carson River trading post and emigrant waystation west of Fallon, nicknamed for clothes cast off by desert-crossing travelers. Nevada State Hi…
- Sand Springs Pony Express Station — Historic · Churchill County, NV
Stabilized 1860 Pony Express / Overland Stage station ruins on the approach to Sand Mountain Recreation Area. Buried by dunes and rediscovered in 1976, the m…
- Schell Creek Station Interpretive Site — Historic · White Pine County, NV
Pony Express National Historic Trail interpretive turnout on US-93 west of Schellbourne. NDOT rest area with picnic tables and restrooms plus a short path to…
- Sedan Crater — Historic · Nye County, NV
Sedan Crater is the scar from the 6 July 1962 Plowshare nuclear excavation test on Yucca Flat at the Nevada National Security Site. The ~1,280-ft-wide, ~320-…
- Silver Peak — Historic · Esmeralda County, NV
One of Nevada’s oldest continuously occupied mining communities (silver discovery 1863; townsite 1864). Stamp mills, boom-and-bust silver/gold cycles, a 1948…
- Sixmile Canyon — Historic · Storey County, NV
East-draining Comstock freight and mill canyon from Virginia City toward the Carson River plains—site of early placer work, the Flowery District, and 1860s–7…
- Spring Mountain Ranch State Park — Historic · Clark County, NV
Historic working ranch and luxury retreat at the base of the Spring Mountains adjacent to Red Rock Canyon NCA. Past owners include Chester Lauck, actress Ver…
- Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & Museum — Historic · Carson City, NV
Public museum and cultural center on the historic Stewart Indian School campus in Carson City, interpreting the boarding-school era and the experiences of Na…
- Sutro Tunnel — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Adolph Sutro's legendary 3.88-mile Comstock drainage and access tunnel (1869–1878), driven from the Carson River valley near Dayton northwest to the Savage M…
- Techatticup Mine, Eldorado Canyon — Historic · Clark County, NV
Nevada's oldest and richest gold mine in dramatic Eldorado Canyon on the Colorado River. Guided underground mine tours through original tunnels that produced…
- Thompson Smelter — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Concrete pillars and foundations of the Mason Valley Mines Company copper smelter (opened 1912) that processed Yerington-district ore beside the Nevada Coppe…
- Thunder Mountain Monument — Historic · Pershing County, NV
Outsider-art complex and living memorial built from 1969 by Frank Van Zant (Chief Rolling Mountain Thunder) beside I-80 at Imlay. Concrete, bottle-glass, and…
- Tonopah Historic Mining Park — Historic · Nye County, NV
Managed 100+ acre outdoor museum on original Tonopah silver-camp ground covering four historic companies (including Mizpah, Silver Top, Desert Queen). Self-g…
- Wabuska — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Railroad hamlet on the Carson & Colorado (later SP) that boomed as a Mason Valley shipping and junction point after 1881, then again with the Nevada Copper B…
- Ward Charcoal Ovens — Historic · White Pine County, NV
Six perfectly preserved 30-foot beehive-shaped stone charcoal kilns built in 1876 to supply fuel for the Ward silver smelter. Among the best-preserved indust…
- Weed Heights — Historic · Lyon County, NV
Anaconda company town built for the Yerington open-pit copper mine (1952–1978). The town still overlooks the flooded, turquoise-tinted pit; a public viewpoin…