The legislators also leased the Warm Springs Hotel to serve as the Territorial Prison, and named their genial host and landlord, as its first warden. The legislature established Carson City as the seat of Ormsby County (named for one of the dead "heroes" at the Battle of Pyramid Lake). Abe Curry, then built the crude Warm Springs Hotel a mile to the east, and when Carson City was selected as the territorial capital in 1861, leased it to the Legislature as a meeting hall. To their astonishment and delight of its citizens, the discovery of the Comstock Lode brought their Carson City to life as a freight and transportation center. Carson City was selected as the state capital at the constitutional convention and has retained that honor to the present day.įollowing the discovery of gold and silver on the nearby Comstock Lode in 1859, Carson City became a thriving commercial center. President Abraham Lincoln, recognizing the importance of Nevada's silver and gold to the Union's Civil War effort, signed the proclamation that ushered Nevada into statehood on October 31, 1864. Carson City was soon designated both the territorial capital and county seat of the new Ormsby County. The farsighted and optimistic Curry set aside 10 acres expressly for the construction of a capitol - this was before the formation of Nevada Territory in 1861. A cadre of well-connected attorneys whose names still decorate street signs here (Proctor, Musser) bought the richest part of the valley for $500 and a herd of horses. Pioneer Abraham Curry arrived in Eagle Valley in 1858 and soon thereafter surveyed and plotted a town site.
Fremont had named Carson City's nearby river for Kit Carson, Fremont's scout. Carson City is named for the famous frontiersman and scout Christopher "Kit" Carson. Eagle Valley had been settled by ranchers. Carson City was founded as a community in 1858, seven years after the first settlement of Eagle Station trading post in 1851. The Consolidated Municipality of Carson City, Nevada's territorial and state capital, has a rich and colorful frontier past.
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