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Photographer: Syd Whittle
Taken: August 24, 2009
Caption:
Sign Mounted at Entrance to the Mark Twain Museum | Additional Description: These Three Sets of Solid Iron Antique Pillars Were Cast Here on the Comstock in the 1860’s.
The Finest Collection of Ornate Pillars in the West
They Were Restored and Preserved by the Territorial Enterprise in 1952 as enduring Monument to
Rollin Dagget ● Dan DeQuille ● Wells Drury ●
Joseph Goodman ● Frred Harte ● and Mark Twain
Men Who Made the Enterprise the Most Famous and Influential Newspaper Between Chicago & the Pacific Coast; & to the Distinguished Writers of Today.
Roger Butterfield ● Walter Van Tilberg Clark ● Bernard De Voto ● Duncan Emerich ● Stewart Holbrook ● and Joseph Henry Jackson
Who are Now Contributing to the Cresent Fame of the Revived Territorial Enterprise
Nevada’s Oldest Newspaper
Submitted: September 24, 2009, by Syd Whittle of Mesa, Arizona.
Database Locator Identification Number: p78394
File Size: 2.183 Megabytes
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