History in Nevada

Clark County Museum has created an entire street of historically important buildings relocated from various other locations within the county.

It may no longer take overnight guests, but the Martin still makes out-of-towners feel at home—just like it has for the past century.

An isolated early 20th-century gold mine in the remote Pine Forest Range contains much preserved equipment.

It bustled briefly in the late 1860s, but little is now left at this stage stop on the Hamilton/Pioche Stage and Freight Road

This colossal underground passage paved the way for large-scale drainage and access tunnels across the U.S., but it almost wasn’t built.

The site of an improbable and ill-fated attempt to use dammed floodwaters for irrigation.

An abandoned mine serves as a stark memorial of when mercury was a valued strategic metal.

An ill-fated attempt to grow wheat in the sagebrush steppe of northeastern Nevada.

This ancient village provides insight into the complexity of the pre-Columbian Fremont Culture.

This historic estate on the east shore of Lake Tahoe was home to an eccentric millionaire (and his pet elephant, Mingo).

In the middle of a remote desert town is a surprisingly opulent hotel.

This Old West eatery along America's Loneliest Road was originally a stop on the Pony Express.

Back in the day everyone who was anyone played this historic western theater.

Historic home to one of the most famous women pioneers of the 19th century.

An 1870s ranch for pioneers, rodeo stars, and divorcees was abandoned and left for dead, until the city reopened it for exploration.