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Dayton's Firsts

First permanent non-Indian settlement in Nevada Ref.

First Gold Discovery in Nevada Ref.

First recorded Dance in Nevada Ref.

First recorded Marriage in Nevada Ref.

First recorded non-Indian birth in Nevada Ref.

First recorded Divorce in Nevada Ref.

First Cemetery in Nevada (First burial - 1850)

First Chinatown in Nevada Ref.

First county seat in Lyon County Ref.

First Newspaper in Nevada (The Gold-Canon Switch produced about 1854 in the fledgling mining camp of Johntown - 2 mi. up Gold Canyon from Dayton) Ref.

First stop on the Carson & Colorado Railroad (The C&C started at Mound House where it joined the Virginia & Truckee RR. The next station built and the first stop was in Dayton.) Ref.

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