"I suppose this location warranted an historic marker simply because without one, a certain curious history seeker would never know this was the original seat of government for Lyon. I hope the others in Old Town are little more interesting. #127 conquered." -- September 2007

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199 Pike St. -- Dayton Lyon   39.236263, -119.589372

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Original Date Visited: 9/13/07
Revisited: 11/14/22
Signed: No

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Street View

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Marker 127 at my initial conquering in 2007 Not much has changed upon my revisiting two decades later!   Old Town Dayton, circa 1900. You'll also find a myriad of other plaques like this one in Old Town Dayton!

Exact Description (original):
Dayton was the first seat of Lyon County. When the courthouse burned in 1907, the seat was moved to Yerington. Utilizing the ruins, the townspeople built a much-needed high school. Closed in 1959, it was reactivated as a junior high school in 1972.

Exact Description (new):
Dayton was the first seat of Lyon County and had one of the first courthouses built in Nevada. Finished in 1864, locals residents celebrated the new two-story brick building and its Italianate styling as an important architectural benchmark for a new state.

On the afternoon of May 15, 1909, the two-story brick building burned and the county seat was moved to Yerington two years later. Utilizing the ruins, the Nevada legislature funded the construction of a high school that opened in 1918. The school closed in 1959 and the building became an elementary school, then a junior high school and is now the Dayton Valley Community Center.

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Dayton VS. Genoa

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 COVERED IN MY US 50 ROAD TRIP

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 - 7 - Dayton   Nevada Towns: Dayton   History of Dayton 

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