The Story of “Big” Bill Murphy Tonopah, Nevada – 23 February 1911 In the early morning of February 23 1911, fire broke out at level 1,666 deep within the Belmont Mine. With no time to spare a 28-year-old cage operator named Bill Murphy descended in the mine cage — twice Read more…
Main Post Office, Tonopah Nevada Built in 1941, the downtown post office on Main Street in Tonopah, Nevada opened for business on the fateful date of December 7, 1941, the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor. The architecture of the Tonopah post office is a 20th century style Read more…
Restored in the 1980s this old red barn was built by the Henry Van Sickle who operated a hotel and pony express station at the foot of the Old Kingsbury Grade near Genoa, Nevada.
Out on the road in Nevada The V&T Railroad has a new train depot just outside Carson City, Nevada, called Eastgate. Your gateway to the Comstock Lode and the mining cities of Silver City, Gold Hill, and Virginia City, Nevada.