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  2. Gold Hill, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Gold Hill, late 1870s. Photo: Carleton Watkins Gold Hill, Nevada: before 1900 (top) and in 2007. Both photos taken from (roughly) the same viewpoint. An open-pit mine was dug (ramp lower left, bottom photo) after 1900. Gold Hill is an unincorporated community in Storey County, Nevada, located just south and downhill of Virginia City.

  3. Virginia City Historic District (Virginia City, Nevada ...

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    Virginia City Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District encompassing the former mining villages of Virginia City and Gold Hill, both in Storey County, as well as Dayton and Silver City, both to the south in adjacent Lyon County, Nevada, United States. Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961, the district is one of only ...

  4. Virginia and Truckee Railroad - Wikipedia

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    There were many propositions starting as early as 1861 for railroads to service the area and decrease costs. Sharon eventually (with the addition of $500,000 in county bonds to move the railroad, equal to $16,955,556 today), envisioned a railroad to run from Virginia City, [2]: 136, 137 through Gold Hill where the first of the Comstock Lode was mined, passing the mills along the river, and ...

  5. Marlette Lake Water System - Wikipedia

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    Civil engineer Hermann Schussler was hired in 1871 as a consultant by the Virginia and Gold Hill Water Company to design a pipeline to carry water from the east slope of the Carson Range to a ridge above the town of Gold Hill, approximately 7 miles. The maximum head at the low point of the siphon was approximately 1,870 feet, or 810 psi.

  6. National Register of Historic Places listings in Nevada

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    The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [1] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [2]

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  8. Gold Hill Daily News - Wikipedia

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    The Gold Hill Daily News was a daily newspaper in Gold Hill, Nevada that was published from 1863 to 1882, during the Comstock silver boom. The paper was politically Republican and a rival of the Territorial Enterprise in neighboring Virginia City .

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