In a Northern Nevada boomtown, under several layers of ... It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the Silver State’s founding. Joe Curtis, a Virginia ...

From trading posts to mining towns, Nevada's oldest towns emerged during ... This makes the Gold Hill Hotel as old as the beginning of the Civil War, which was happening hundreds of miles east ...

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