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E. A. Byler House

27 Thursday Oct 2022

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E. A. Byler House, built by Byler in 1905, a mining engineer and U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor, it is the best preserved bottle house in Goldfield.

Located in the Goldfield National Historic District in Goldfield, Nevada

Jackrabbit

20 Saturday Aug 2022

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Jackrabbit

Local legend attributes the discovery to the locator picking up a rock to throw at a jackrabbit and finding himself holding high-grade silver. The Jackrabbit District, named for the mine, was located in 1876 by Isaac Newton Garrison. Early mine production of the camp, at one time named Royal City, was about ten tons per day, carrying native silver in flakes, yielding about $40 per ton – sometimes as high as $2,000 per ton. Mineral production declined during the 1880s, but when a fifteen-mile narrow gauge railroad was opened in 1891 between the Jackrabbit Mine and Pioche, mining soon increased. After 1893 the mines fell silent except for several short periods of activity in 1906-1907 and 1912-1914.

This is Nevada State Historical Marker #204, see others on this page:

Overton

16 Tuesday Aug 2022

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Overton

In 1869 Heleman Pratt, Wm. D. Kartchner and other L.D.S. church members came to Overton; built adobe homes; planted vineyards and crops. In 1871 double taxation forced an exodus from Muddy Valley. Local investors acquired the land, resold to returning pioneers 1880. John Munson, Overton Presiding Elder. Martha Cox taught school under trees until schoolhouse was finished. Jessie W. Crosby, Postmaster 1883. Isaiah Cox Sr., Ward Bishop 1884. This building first Moapa Stake House.

This is Daughters of Utah Pioneers historic marker #385 located at the old hospital at 159 W Virginia in Overton, Nevada.