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Dayton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lyon County, Nevada, United States. The population was 15,153 at the 2020 census . [ 3 ] Dayton is the second-oldest Nevada settlement, after Genoa , and is home to the oldest hotel in the state.
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After the Dayton Court House burned down in 1909, the seat was moved to Yerington in 1911. There were stories that it was named for Captain Robert Lyon, a survivor of the Pyramid Lake War in 1860, but Nevada State Archives staff discovered a county seal with the picture of the Civil War general, settling the conflict.
Two years earlier, emigrants journeying to California, had discovered gold at the entrance to Gold Canyon near Dayton. [1] Johntown site, 1880s. For the next 10 years, miners worked the area, "sluicing the placer deposits with primitive rockers and long toms, recovering limited amounts of gold."
Como's first rock mill, a steam driven contraption called "The Solomon Davis," arrived with much fanfare in 1863. Although several sources have stated that Como was the first seat of Lyon County, nearby Dayton was officially appointed as the first county seat by the Nevada Territorial Legislative Assembly on November 29, 1861. [6]