The assay office located here was one of the busiest places in the Gold Hill Mining District during the 1860s discovery era:
With statehood in 1864, came the justice court compleat with a jail. These structures were housed behind the assay . . . — — Map (db m46070) HM
During the early 1860’s Gold Hill’s Home Guard erected an earthen fort overlooking the town. In the fall of 1865 the General Grant, a 24 pounder gun, was placed here at Ft. Homestead for celebrations. The Virginia & Truckee Railroad’s tunnel No. 3 . . . — — Map (db m172998) HM
The first prospectors and settlers came to this area in 1852, but Gold Hill was not formally settled until 1858. The following year, with the discovery of silver, Gold Hill became a major community. Never as prominent as Virginia City, Gold Hill . . . — — Map (db m46035) HM
[Main Marker:]
This building is the original stone and brick edifice erected on the site of the first recorded claim on what became the Comstock Lode May 1, 1859. One of the earliest hotels it housed miners and notables offering lodging, . . . — — Map (db m21946) HM
Near this site is the Imperial Co. gloryhole that produced the first Comstock millionaires. Adjoining claims held by Eilley (Orrum) Cowan and Sandy Bowers, whom she later married. Produced over $1,000,000 in gold and silver. The Bowers Mansion in . . . — — Map (db m229767) HM
Sacred To The Memory Of The Founders Of Odd Fellowship In Nevada Who Here Instituted Wildey Lodge No. 1 Independent Order of Odd Fellows: April 1, 1862. With the following Charter Members: L. Hite W.H. Began John Lambert J.W. Phillips P. Meyer O. . . . — — Map (db m89440) HM
Gold Hill's first fire company was organized as Silver Hook & Ladd on Novemeber 18, 1863. It disbanded and re-organized as Liberty Hose Co. No.1 on August 19 1864, purchasing its first hose carriage from Folsom & Hiller of San Francisco in October . . . — — Map (db m77695) HM
Founded 1863
As Silver Bar Hook & Ladder Company No.1
Of Gold Hill, Nevada Territory
Reorganized 1864
As Liberty Engine Company No.1
Active in fighting fires for 90 years
The company motto was
“Faithful and . . . — — Map (db m21951) HM
Site of the Historic
Maynard Block
Here was the Heart
of the City
A large building housed the
post office & stock exchange
dry goods & drug stores meat & grocery markets French modiste hair dresser barber shop & doctors . . . — — Map (db m46074) HM
On this site stood the Silver Star Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons #5.
Chartered on Oct. 13, 1864, Lodge #5 once hosted the largest membership in Nevada.
Timberman Duane L. Bliss who established Glenbrook and was a builder of the . . . — — Map (db m46071) HM
