This 1999 event was a great success!
SESQUICENTENNIAL
NEVADA'S GOLD DISCOVERY
CELEBRATION
GOLD
IN DAYTON
1849-1999
ENTHUSIASTS WANTED
To
Celebrate Dayton's 150
Year Anniversary Discovery Of GOLD
Relive
Settling The Old West By Visiting Original Emigrant
And
Pony
Express Trails In Nevada's Oldest Settlement
HISTORIC
PARADE - 10:30AM
NEVADA
STATE MONUMENT DEDICATION
BY GOVERNOR GUINN
CIVIL WAR
CANNONS & PONY EXPRESS RIDER
FROM SILVER CITY TO DAYTON - 12:00PM
COLLECTORS ARE
INVITED TO PURCHASE CARSON CITY
MINTED MEDALLIONS - LIMITED
PRODUCTION IN BRONZE AND SILVER
DAYTON PICTORIAL STAMP CANCELLATION WITH
GOLD EMBOSSED CACHET COVER
SEE RENOVATION OF CENTURY OLD LEVI® AD ART
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
Saturday, July 17, 1999
7 - 10 a.m. |
Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast, Community Center, Pike Street |
9 - 11 a.m. |
Nevada State Park Tour, Rock Point Mill Site |
10:30 a.m. |
Parade - Dayton Depot Down Pike St. To "Our Park" |
12:00 p.m. |
Nevada State Monument
Dedication, Pike & Main Streets Governor Kenny Guinn, Pony Express & Civie War Cannons |
1 - 1:45 p.m. |
Mark Twain Portrayed By McAvoy Layne, Pike & Main Streets |
2 p.m. |
Dayton Historic Melodrama, Pike & Main Streets |
2 - 6 p.m. |
"The Back Forty" Blue Grass Band, Community Center |
3 - 4 p.m. |
Costume Contest, Pike & Main Streets |
4 - 5 p.m. |
Gold Rush Story & Song, Chris Bayer, Pike & Main Streets |
7 - 10 p.m. |
Victorian Ball, Community Center |
~ AROUND OLD TOWN ~ BOTH DAYS ~
Horse & wagon rides, gold panning, museum & cemetery tours, crafts, Civil War reenactments, Dayton pictorial postal cancellation, commemorative medallion, plates, no beard ~ land in jail
Living histories - - Abner Blackburn, discovered Nevada's first gold, lives again ! Anvil blacksmith, spinning, weaving, flint lock & rifle/pistol demo, cooking, rope, rug making & more
Sunday, July 18, 1999
| 9:00 a.m. | Youth Rodeo, Dayton Valley Youth Center Rodeo Arena |
| 11 - 11:45 am | Gold Rush Story & Song, Chris Bayer |
| High Noon | Drawing, CC stamped Dayton - Mined Gold Medallion, Homemade Ravioli Dinner For 12, Steve Saylor Print |
| 12:15 - 1:00 p.m. | Dayton Historical Melodrama |
| 1 - 2 p.m. | Abe Lincoln On Stage |
| 3:00 p.m. | Beard Contest |
JULY 17TH & 18TH, 1999 |
FOR
INFORMATION CALL US AT 775-246-7327
Historical Exhibits Welcomed
Funded by Lyon County Room
Tax