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 [...]
Dayton historian Linda Clements speaks on The Carson & Colorado Railroad and Dayton's 1881 Depot. Lectures are $5 per person. Make an evening of it and dine in the Crown Point Restaurant. Lecture packages include a lecture and a dinner [...]
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 [...]
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 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, [...]
** Note from Patrick at the Gold Hill Hotel - As of 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 7/25 - we are all sold out for this event! ** Joe explains his lecture: My parents moved to Virginia City in 1958 when [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Lecture subject: Settling of the West: Public Lands and the U.S. Homestead Acts Stony Tennant began collecting Dayton historical artifacts when he settled here at the old Sutro Tunnel site in the early 1960s. During those years, he also cowboyed [...]
McKay was born on the Comstock, and lived part of his life there. He was part of the Tonopah boom owning saloons there. He was a bootlegger and also likely involved in illicit narcotics. By 1923 he was in Reno [...]
