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Carson City Historic Marker

Location of sign -  Nevada State Capitol Plaza on the main walkway to the Capitol building.

Photo taken October 2008

Photo courtesy of Jimmy Wayne

Text of sign:

Carson City

Nevada’s State Capital, one of the state’s oldest communities, was established in 1851 as Eagle Station, a trading post and ranch 

on the Carson Branch of the California Immigrant Trail, by Frank and Warren L. Hall, George Follansbee, Joe and Frank Bernard 

and A.J. Rollins. The station and surrounding valley took their name from an eagle skin stretched on the wall of the trading post.

In 1858, Abraham Curry purchased much of the Eagle Ranch after finding that lots in Genoa were too expensive. Together with his 

friends, John Musser, Frank Proctor and Ben Green, Curry platted a town he called Carson City. Curry left a plaza in the center of 

the planned community for a capitol building should the territorial or state seat of government be located in his town sometime in the

future. In March 1861, Congress created the Nevada Territory. Seven months later, November, 1861, Carson City became the 

capital of the territory due to the efforts of Curry and William M. Stewart. When Nevada became a state three years later, Carson 

City was selected as the state capital, and by 1871, the present capitol building was completed in the plaza Curry had reserved it 

for.

State Historical Marker No.44 

Division of Historic Preservation and Archeology 

Carson City Historic Commission

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