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Newspaper Notes - 1850s (NN-18.5)(1850s) (336 pages)

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NEVADA 1850 Notes on early beginnings First white man to enter area was John Marshall in 1848 (Summer) Deer Creek Diggings First settlers, Sept. 1849. Capt. John Pennington, Thomas Cross, and William McCraig at Gold Run. Dr. A. B. Caldwell erected a cabin on Nevada Street, and locality first became known as Caldwell's Upper Store, then Deer Creek Dry Diggzings. 1000 miners congregated in region the winter of 1849-50. March 1850 Mr. Stamps was elected Alcalde under Mexican law. 2000 population by May 1850. in 1851 250 buildings April 1851 NevadaJournal, first paver with Warren B. Ewer, editor. Fire in 1851 Hamlet Davis, first mayor not legal so Moses F. Hoyt elected. Early buildings: Caldwell's upper store, Oct. 1849 Stamps cabin on forks of ravine back of Coyote Street, Oct. 1849. a square canvas shanty. John Truesdale cabin on Broad Street, 1849. Early in winter, canvas tents and brush shanties were built. Trusdale's was a board building Truex and Blackman Store -name chosen for town and suggestéd by 0.P.Blackman were Madame Penn's Boarding House on the site of the present Union Hotel. Robert Gordon large store on Commercial Street Womack & Kenzie a cloth hotel where post office is now located. May 1, 1850First frame hotel on Main Street, J.N.Turner, near the site of the old Union Hotel, called NevadaHotel. 38 x 48 -rifted pine boards from one tree. A shake house was made by setting stakes hn ground at intervals the length of a shake and nailing shakes to it. First store on Broad Street kept in a tent by Hamlet Davis, May 1850. Mr. Davis erected a two-story frame building on corner of Broad and Pine 2nd story became a reading room. Later converted into a theater in 1851. “New tawn built after fire of 1851: Nevada Hotel J.N.Turner Gregory House U.S.Gregory Washington Hotel Best Phelps Hotel on Main. Site was on Union Alley, which was laid out after the 1856 fire. Hirst & Russell Sawmill Davis and Hirst O.P.Blackman & Co. Rrues & Co. \ R. J.Oglesby Beard & Co. (Clothing and grocery stores took the lead.) Ie.