** 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 […]
Hello All, We are having a private rehearsal dinner on Friday, August 4th from 5 p.m. to approximately 8 p.m. So dinner will not be served this evening in the restaurant. Please note that the bar will be open at […]
Enjoy a wonderful dinner at the Crown Point followed by a ghost tour of the Gold Hill Hotel. For more information and to make reservations please call 775-815-1050
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 […]
Come listen to the magical singer/ songwriter Athena performing in our Great Room tonight from 6 - 8:30 p.m. Should be a great time! Come early and have dinner in our fine restaurant before the show!
Enjoy a wonderful dinner at the Crown Point restaurant at the Gold Hill Hotel at 7 p.m. and then take a ghostly ghost tour of the haunted rooms at the Gold Hill Hotel at 8 p.m. $40 for both dinner […]
This lecture is by James Clark, one of the foremost experts in trains and motion pictures having worked for over thirty years in the movie business. He has handled all aspects of movie film production from scouting locations, equipment acquisition, […]