Historical Markers of Lyon County
- HM 7 - Dayton
- HM 61 - Mound House
- HM 74 - Wellington
- HM 85 - Sutro
- HM 113 - Wabuska
- HM 127 - Courthouse Site (1865-1907)
- HM 163 - Chinatown (Early Name of Dayton)
- HM 177 - Desert Well Station (Overland Mail and Stage Station)
- HM 185 - McCone's Foundries
- HM 186 - Union Hotel & Post Office
- HM 192 - Buckland's Station (On the California Emigrant Trail)
- HM 199 - Camels in Dayton
- HM 200 - Hall's Station
- HM 223 - Devil's Gate
- HM 233 - Dayton Cemetery
- HM 255 - Wilson Canyon
- HM 257 - Nevada's First Gold Discovery
- HM 262 - Dayton School House - 1865
- HM 264 - Silver City Schoolhouse
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*HM 61*
-- Mound House --
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Location: Western Lyon County, Mound House
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Date Conquered: 2/13/08
Nearest Intersection: Highlands Dr.
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!
Full Description:
Exact description as reads...
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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.
