May 4, 2022
Forty-four Civil War-era soldiers buried at Fort Churchill were exhumed and transferred to the Lone Mountain Cemetery in 1885.
More than 160 years ago, the Nevada territory began attracting more settlers to a barren, yet pristine land. The California Gold Rush of 1849 beckoned thousands of opportunists to travel across the Great Basin to California looking for riches. Ten years later, the discovery of the Comstock Silver Lode enticed more people to come Virginia City’s Comstock with the dreams of striking it rich and building that mansion on the hill.
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