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African Americans on the Comstock

African Americans came to the western Great Basin in the 1850s. Read more about this history.

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Reno

Reno has always been a town of contrasts. Find out more about its natural beauty, darkness and cosmopolitan edge.

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    • Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
      Visitors to the campus of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) are sometimes puzzled by the black column on the plaza...
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    • Churchill County's Shoe Tree
      For many decades, a seventy-foot-tall cottonwood tree, known by travelers and locals alike as the Shoe Tree, could be found at...
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    • Churchill County Seats
      Churchill County was an original county formed when the Nevada Territory was established in 1861. The population at that time...
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    • Churchill County Courthouse
      In Churchill County's early years, the location of the courthouse moved several times due to an unstable economy....
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    • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
      Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have had a presence in Nevada for more than 150 years....
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    • Chinese in Nineteenth-Century Nevada
      A mere twenty-one Chinese men lived in the western Great Basin in 1860. It was a humble beginning for immigrants who would...
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