Nevada Rock Art Geocaching Historical Markers

Historical Marker #223

Located along State Route 342 in Silver City, Nevada.

Devil's Gate

It gives... "a forcible impression of the unhallowed character of the place," J. Ross Browne - 1860.

This rugged reef of metamorphic rock was once one of the famous landmarks of the Nevada Territory. In June of 1850, John Orr and Nickolas Kelly unearthed a gold nugget nearby, the first ever found in Gold Canyon. For the next ten years, the canyon was the scene of placer mining and one of the first stamp mills in the Territory was erected just to the south of Devil's Gate during the summer of 1860.

During the brief Paiute War, 1860, the people of Silver City built a stone battlement atop the eastern summit and constructed a wooden cannon for protection.

Devil's Gate marks the boundary line between Storey and Lyon Counties. Through this narrow gorge paraded thousands of the most adventurous souls of the mining West as they made their way to the gold and silver mines of the Comstock Lode.

Notes on this marker:

I have a feeling this one is gone. But the Gate is very imposing and the border between Storey and Lyon.

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