Historical Markers of Lyon County
Location: Western Lyon County, Mound House Directions: Along US 50, 6 miles east of Carson City
N39° 12' 50.3" W119° 40' 12.2"
Date Conquered: 2/13/08 Nearest Intersection: Bunny Ranch Blvd. Quick Description: A marker remembering Mound House and the Carson & Colorado Railroad. Signed: Yes -- Signed on eastbound side of US 50 only. Marker History: #61 has gone missing for nearly a year, until it was re-erected only in August of 2007! This marker is brand new, as seen from its new style mounting post. Oddly, officials never finished the marker (from the lack of a state seal). Unfortunately, this marker is vulnerable to removal again because of a new construction project surrounding its location. In any case, kudos go to the SHPO and NDOT for re-erecting this fine marker! A crisp wintry scene looking westbound on US 50 toward Carson City. The Carson Range in the background mark the official ending of the Great Basin. Full Description: Exact description as reads ... Mound House was located one-half mile north of this point. Originally constructed in 1871 as a station and siding on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, it served for some time simply as a wood and water stop. In 1877, a post office was established. Mound House came its own in 1880 when the V&T began construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from here to the mining camps of western Nevada and the Owens Valley in California. Named the Carson & Colorado, it turned Mound House into a booming shipping point. The Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the C&C from the V&T in 1900. Just prior to the Tonopah silver strike. In 1905, the S.P. built a short line from its new station at Hazen, on the main line to intersect the C&C with Fort Churchill. The Hazen cutoff took most of the booming Tonopah-Goldfield business away from the V&T. During the period 1900-1920, extensive gypsum mining and milling operations to plaster, were carried on immediately northwest of Mound House. The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
Marker History: #61 has gone missing for nearly a year, until it was re-erected only in August of 2007! This marker is brand new, as seen from its new style mounting post. Oddly, officials never finished the marker (from the lack of a state seal). Unfortunately, this marker is vulnerable to removal again because of a new construction project surrounding its location. In any case, kudos go to the SHPO and NDOT for re-erecting this fine marker! A crisp wintry scene looking westbound on US 50 toward Carson City. The Carson Range in the background mark the official ending of the Great Basin. Full Description: Exact description as reads ... Mound House was located one-half mile north of this point. Originally constructed in 1871 as a station and siding on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, it served for some time simply as a wood and water stop. In 1877, a post office was established. Mound House came its own in 1880 when the V&T began construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from here to the mining camps of western Nevada and the Owens Valley in California. Named the Carson & Colorado, it turned Mound House into a booming shipping point. The Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the C&C from the V&T in 1900. Just prior to the Tonopah silver strike. In 1905, the S.P. built a short line from its new station at Hazen, on the main line to intersect the C&C with Fort Churchill. The Hazen cutoff took most of the booming Tonopah-Goldfield business away from the V&T. During the period 1900-1920, extensive gypsum mining and milling operations to plaster, were carried on immediately northwest of Mound House. The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
Full Description: Exact description as reads ... Mound House was located one-half mile north of this point. Originally constructed in 1871 as a station and siding on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, it served for some time simply as a wood and water stop. In 1877, a post office was established. Mound House came its own in 1880 when the V&T began construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from here to the mining camps of western Nevada and the Owens Valley in California. Named the Carson & Colorado, it turned Mound House into a booming shipping point. The Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the C&C from the V&T in 1900. Just prior to the Tonopah silver strike. In 1905, the S.P. built a short line from its new station at Hazen, on the main line to intersect the C&C with Fort Churchill. The Hazen cutoff took most of the booming Tonopah-Goldfield business away from the V&T. During the period 1900-1920, extensive gypsum mining and milling operations to plaster, were carried on immediately northwest of Mound House. The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
Mound House was located one-half mile north of this point. Originally constructed in 1871 as a station and siding on the Virginia and Truckee Railroad, it served for some time simply as a wood and water stop. In 1877, a post office was established. Mound House came its own in 1880 when the V&T began construction of a narrow-gauge railroad from here to the mining camps of western Nevada and the Owens Valley in California. Named the Carson & Colorado, it turned Mound House into a booming shipping point. The Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the C&C from the V&T in 1900. Just prior to the Tonopah silver strike. In 1905, the S.P. built a short line from its new station at Hazen, on the main line to intersect the C&C with Fort Churchill. The Hazen cutoff took most of the booming Tonopah-Goldfield business away from the V&T. During the period 1900-1920, extensive gypsum mining and milling operations to plaster, were carried on immediately northwest of Mound House. The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
The Southern Pacific Railroad purchased the C&C from the V&T in 1900. Just prior to the Tonopah silver strike. In 1905, the S.P. built a short line from its new station at Hazen, on the main line to intersect the C&C with Fort Churchill. The Hazen cutoff took most of the booming Tonopah-Goldfield business away from the V&T. During the period 1900-1920, extensive gypsum mining and milling operations to plaster, were carried on immediately northwest of Mound House. The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
During the period 1900-1920, extensive gypsum mining and milling operations to plaster, were carried on immediately northwest of Mound House. The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
The narrow-gauge line was abandoned from Mound House to Churchill in 1934, and the V&T track from Carson City to Virginia City in 1939. Within a few years, Mound House had disappeared. The hill in the foreground are all that's left mark "Mound House", now built over by modern day industry and the newly-relocated Moonlight Bunnyranch. If you ever needed proof that Nevada is a snowy state, the proof is before you!
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