Over the years the brothers of JCB have plaque’d numerous historical places. Unfortunately, some of these locations have been hit with natural disasters (fire, weather damage, etc) or been torn down because of modern updates to roads or buildings. And in at least one case, there was a plaque that was made and never actually…
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Las Vegas Sun, August 18, 1963 Julia Bulette, perhaps Nevada’s greatest enigma, that never has been—and now never will be—solved, hit Virginia City like a nuclear bomb in the days when it was wild and tough, and remained as one of its leading figures during the years when it became still wilder and tougher. Just…
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CLAMPERS CLAN Verse one In sunny California, in the land the gods love best, The Clan E Clampus Vitus First showed its golden yellow crest, To sounds of hewgag blowing ‘Neath the smiling western sky Its ranks are always growing, and people shout as they march by; Chorus Here come the Clampers, the…
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by Marion Goldmanreproduced from the Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Summer 1978. PDF True she was a woman of easy virtue. Yet hundreds in this city have had cause to bless her name for her many acts of kindness and charity. That woman probably had more real, warm friends in this community than any other (1).…
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Home of the Julia C Bulette 1864 in Virginia City By Dzhek Karawakow reprinted without permission fromFlatlander II, Volume XLIII, Number 11November 2022 – 6027 When World War II arrived, Nevada’s Virginia City was not much more than a ghost town. The mines had largely dried up and any production of gold and silver was…
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by Bob Thomasson 17 November 2020 There were 4 air shafts more or less evenly spaced along the Sutro Tunnel route, numbered Air Shaft 1 through 4, starting from the tunnel portal. Another air shaft, called simply Air Shaft, was constructed 2,225 feet from the portal, between the portal and Air Shaft 1. This unnumbered…
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The Queen of the Short Lines In the beginning (1859) there was a nascent City on a silver mountain. It needed a connection to the outside world, means to lug fuel and construction supplies up the grade and a much more convenient way to work the marginal ores from the many mines. William Sharon, Agent…
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ECV Hall by Jeff Johnson from Marsh Fey Louie Berrum of Moana Hot Springs fame as Knights of Pythias trustee offered the ruins and lot between the Pythian Armory and the Miners Union Hall on B St. in Virginia City Nevada to Julia C. Bulette #1864 in 1968. It had a single row of brick…
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(For the PDF version of the book, click here.) Julia’s Unequivocal Nevada Klampout #42Clamper year 6026 Researched and fabricated byJeffrey D. Johnson XNGH,Clamphistorian at Chapter 1864 Envisioned byNoble Grand Humbug Fred Eldred Dedicated toThe Angels of Paradise and Dallas Cheerleaders 2021 c.e. Humboldt County Humboldt is the oldest county in Nevada, created by the Utah…
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