Garden Cemetery

Historical marker location:

Gardnerville, Nevada

( Marker is at the intersection of Cemetery Lane and Spruce Street, on the left when traveling north on Cemetery Lane.)

Corner of Spruce and Cemetery.

Nevada was once the world's largest producer of silver: In the late 1800s, Nevada was one of the world's largest producers of silver. The discovery of the Comstock Lode in 1859, a massive deposit of silver ore, led to a mining boom that transformed the state.