Historical Marker

Cathedral Gorge

Historical marker location:
Panaca, Nevada
( Marker can be reached from Cathedral Gorge State Park Road, 0.1 miles west of U.S. 93.)

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.