Navy sailors on deck Saturday for volunteer work at historic Nevada State Prison
Glen Whorton, president of the Nevada State Prison Preservation Society, welcomed 13 sailors from Carrier Air Wing Three of Virginia Beach, VA to the Nevada State Prison on Saturday. The crew performs volunteer work while training at the Naval Air Station in Fallon.
This is the first time they have been to Carson City and after the historical tour, worked on weed abatement. Their volunteer duties comes a day after the Nevada State Prison became the latest addition to the National Register of Historic Places, through the National Park Service. The National Register is the nation’s official list of properties worthy of preservation.
The Nevada State Prison is one of Nevada’s oldest state institutions. Established in 1862, in Carson City, as the Nevada Territorial Prison, the facility was one of the earliest symbols of Nevada’s growing status in the mid-19 century, according to the park service.
The Virginia Beach group will be back in Carson City next weekend to perform needed repairs at the Brewery Arts Center and construct a fence at the historic burial grounds of Civil War soldiers at Fuji Park.
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