Daytonrsquo;s history begins with Nevadarsquo;s first gold discovery in July 1849. It started with a California-bound pack train; led by trail guide Abner Blackburn; setting up camp at the mouth of a canyon that drained into the Carson River. While waiting for the snow to melt in the Sierra; Blackburn went prospecting and dug gold from the creek bed. The news of his discovery spread; and prospectors rushed to the site they called Gold Cantilde;onmdash;todayrsquo;s Dayton. In May 1851; diarist Lucena Pfuffer Parsons; traveling with a wagon train; camped at the site and reported about 200 miners living in the canyon. She noted that they were finding enough gold to trade for supplies. In 1859; after working their way up the canyon; miners discovered a large silver and gold deposit known as the Comstock Lode. This discovery led Nevada to statehood in 1864.
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