carson_reb
Sergeant Major
- Joined
- Dec 14, 2010
- Location
- Carson City, Nevada
On October 31, 2014 the state of Nevada will celebrate its sesquicentennial birthday.
On October 31, 1864 the United States Congress received and ratified the proposed state constitution from the Nevada Territorial Assembly, admitting the home of the Comstock Lode as the 36th State in the Union just days before the 1864 general election. President Abraham Lincoln benefited both from popular and electoral votes coming from the newest state in the union.
A fun fact: Nevada was the first state to have its constitution read by Congress the same day it was submitted by territorial assembly for ratification. How did this happen? By telegraph.
The entire Nevada state constitution was sent and deciphered via telegraph wire...one hundred and thirty years before email.
Nevada is one of only two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War. The other is West Virginia. Kansas was admitted to the Union in January 1861, before war had been declared.
Over $400 million in gold and silver deposits were mined from the Comstock between its discovery in 1859 and 1876, when the Lode finally played out. An untold number of tons of silver ore was discarded early in the Lode, because nobody knew what the blueish-gray ore was at first. Literal mountains of it had been dug out and thrown away before someone said "That's silver!" Had it not been for that, I wonder if Nevada would have become known as the "Comstock State" instead of the "Silver State."
On October 31, 1864 the United States Congress received and ratified the proposed state constitution from the Nevada Territorial Assembly, admitting the home of the Comstock Lode as the 36th State in the Union just days before the 1864 general election. President Abraham Lincoln benefited both from popular and electoral votes coming from the newest state in the union.
A fun fact: Nevada was the first state to have its constitution read by Congress the same day it was submitted by territorial assembly for ratification. How did this happen? By telegraph.
The entire Nevada state constitution was sent and deciphered via telegraph wire...one hundred and thirty years before email.
Nevada is one of only two states admitted to the Union during the American Civil War. The other is West Virginia. Kansas was admitted to the Union in January 1861, before war had been declared.
Over $400 million in gold and silver deposits were mined from the Comstock between its discovery in 1859 and 1876, when the Lode finally played out. An untold number of tons of silver ore was discarded early in the Lode, because nobody knew what the blueish-gray ore was at first. Literal mountains of it had been dug out and thrown away before someone said "That's silver!" Had it not been for that, I wonder if Nevada would have become known as the "Comstock State" instead of the "Silver State."
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