• Thursday Night Lecture Speaker – Tom Zachary

    Gold Hill Hotel 1540 Main Street P.O. Box 1067 , , Gold Hill, NV, United States

    Cowboy Poetry at its Finest Presentation starts at 7:30PM Restaurant and Bar open at 4pm Dinner and Lecture $25.00 Lecture Only $10.00 For reservations please call 775-847-0111

  • Tom Zachry ” Tom’s Fairly Western”

    Gold Hill Hotel 1540 Main Street P.O. Box 1067 , , Gold Hill, NV, United States

    Tom Zachry, "Tom's Fairly Western" Cowboy music and poetry. - Tom Zachry, retired Dayton schoolteacher, cowboy singer and poet will share songs, poems and stories of old-time Dayton characters – including Rocky Adamson, at the second part of “Tom’s Fairly Western” […]

  • Bonnie Matton ” Wild Horses of the Virginia/Flowery Ranges”

    Gold Hill Hotel 1540 Main Street P.O. Box 1067 , , Gold Hill, NV, United States

    Bonnie Matton - "Wild Horses of the Virginia/Flowery Ranges" - Bonnie Matton, head of the Dayton-based Wild Horse Preservation League, will give a presentation on the wild horses that roam the private lands of the Virginia and Flowery Ranges, including […]

  • Lecture series continues with “Weird Haunted Virginia City” tonight!

    Come to the haunting!  Arline La Ferry is a Nevada Historical Society docent and 35-year historian. Arline is considered an expert in research especially the history of Virginia City, Nevada.  Sandie LaNae is a psychic, paranormal Investigator, author and TV […]

  • Lecture series – Ernie Winters

    Color Photography of Virginia City in the 1950's!  Vibrant Kodachrome images from back in the day! Ernie Winters is a local photographer. Ernie is a huge supporter of the CFHC and has donated valuable photography work for the CFHC. He […]

  • Mark McLaughlin – Colorful Characters of the Comstock

    Mark McLaughlin will present a fast-paced slideshow about the cast of characters that make the history of Nevada’s Comstock silver boom so fascinating. This snapshot history profiles the experiences of Mark Twain, George Hearst, “Crazy Sutro,” Hermann Schussler, Ellie Orrum, […]

  • Alan Coyner – Why is there so much gold in Nevada?

    Even though Nevada is known as “The Silver State”, gold mining is the dominant mineral commodity produced in the state today. In 2015 Nevada produced 5.34 million ounces of gold valued at $6.19 billion. This accounted for 83% of the […]

  • Lecture series continues! Laura Tennant – The Making of the Misfits

    Just image!! It was August 1960 when Hollywood’s favorite stars, Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable, Montgomery Clift, Eli Wallach and Thelma Ritter arrived in Dayton, Nevada to film the “The Misfits” directed by Hollywood notables: director, John Huston, producer, Frank Taylor and […]