Early Nevada history displayed at the Dayton Museum during Dayton Valley Days
Dayton Valley Days in Old Town Dayton is a two-day event that begins Saturday, Sept. 17 and runs through Sunday and the Dayton Museum, one of Dayton’s most revered treasures, in the heart of Old Town Dayton on Logan, is open from 10 am to 4 pm both days.
The Museum, created in the former 1865 Dayton Grammar Schoolhouse at 135 Logan Street, is one block west of the Dayton Valley Community Center, where most of the days’ activities originate.
The inner and exterior construction of the schoolhouse is still original, including the wood floors, walls, slate blackboards, masonry; the hand quarried exterior local stones and the 1863 school bell brought from Sheffield England!
The hundreds of vintage artifacts, tools and photographs on display in the Museum depict Nevada, Lyon County and Dayton’s pioneers earliest mining, milling, agricultural history, railroading and cultures that date to 1849 when the state’s first gold, placer gold, was discovered at the site of the mouth of Gold Canyon Creek, where Dayton began.
The Museum exhibits also highlight the cultures of the American Indians who were here first, and the Chinese who settled here to form Nevada’s First Chinatown. ADMISSION IS FREE!