The Leisure Hour Club is pleased to announce that the Friends of Sutro Tunnel will be the featured presenter at our upcoming ...

For the first time in nearly 20 years, the Sutro Tunnel will undergo formal exploration. A Grass Valley, Calif., firm will be using a drone on Monday to squeeze through an 18-inch hole in the tunnel’s ...

Stretching four miles underground from Dayton to Virginia City, the Sutro Tunnel was an engineering marvel when it was completed in 1878. In 1860 entrepreneur Adolph Sutro envisioned a drainage tunnel ...

Reprinted from the Virginia Evening Chronicle,July 9, 1878. As part of the sesquicentennial celebrations, we will reprint historic stories from Nevada newspapers from the past 150 years each Tuesday ...

Much of the information for this article was assembled by Clairitage Press, Where History comes alive. It has been well over 100 years since the last mining car filled with ore from the Comstock ...

CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - A group of Nevada history buffs has formed Friends of Sutro Tunnel to restore the remains of the abandoned and deteriorating town of Sutro at the entrance to a 150-year-old ...

DAYTON, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) — Nevada in the 19th century saw innovators leave the marks. Miners, builders, and businessmen alike took advantage of the newest state in the union to find ways of ...