William Abbott Home / Abbott Hotel

Historical marker location:

220 East Mesquite Boulevard, Mesquite, Nevada

( Marker is on East Mesquite Boulevard east of North Sandhill Road, on the right when traveling east.)

Circa 1901.

Mark Twain spent time in Nevada: The famous American author Mark Twain spent time in Nevada during the state's mining boom in the late 1800s. He worked for the Territorial Enterprise newspaper in Virginia City, which was a mining boomtown at the time.