Historical Markers of Washoe County & Reno
- HM 4 - Junction House (First Settlement)
- HM 18 - Pyramid Lake
- HM 24 - Olinghouse
- HM 29 - Chinese in Nevada
- HM 30 - Reno
- HM 43 - Derby Diversion Dam
- HM 62 - Truckee River -- West
- HM 63 - Truckee River -- East
- HM 68 - Wadsworth
- HM 79 - Civil War Plot
- HM 81 - Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Tree
- HM 88 - Sparks
- HM 94 - The Winters Ranch (Rancho Del Sierra)
- HM 114 - Franktown
- HM 128 - The Great Train Robbery
- HM 148 - The Two Battles of Pyramid Lake
- HM 149 - High Rock Canyon
- HM 152 - Gerlach
- HM 166 - Bowers Mansion
- HM 169 - Glendale School
- HM 189 - Southern Pacific Railroad Yards
- HM 191 - Verdi
- HM 198 - Steamboat Springs
- HM 210 - Nevada-California-Oregon Railroad Depot
- HM 211 - Old Geiger Grade (In Canyon Below)
- HM 212 - Galena
- HM 218 - Geiger Station (Magnolia House)
- HM 220 - The Fight of the Century
- HM 221 - Sand Harbor
- HM 227 - Lake Mansion
- HM 230 - Mount Rose Weather Observatory
- HM 234 - Moana Springs
- HM 238 - Huffaker's
- HM 240 - Coney Island
- HM 245 - Frederick Joseph DeLongchamps (June 2, 1882 - February 11, 1969)
- HM 246 - The Great Incline of the Sierra Nevada
- HM 247 - Site of Nevada's First Public Library
- HM 248 - Virginia & Truckee Railroad Right of Way
- HM 253 - Emigrant-Donner Camp
- HM 256 - Historic Transportation...
- SHL 265 - Governor Emmet Derby Boyle
- HM 267 - Galena Creek Fish Hatchery
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*HM 79*
-- Civil War Plot --
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Location: Reno
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Description:
Exact description as read:
This plot was purchased in 1890 for $180 in gold coin by the General O.M. Mitchel Post No. 69, Grand Army of the Republic, to be used as a last resting place for their comrades-in-arms during the Civil War, 1861-1865.
They made it a place of beauty during the early 1900's.
Following years of neglect and outrageous vandalism, restoration was initiated in 1963 by the Daughters of Union Veterans who served in their own state and neighboring areas of the West from 1861 to 1866.
