Virginia City, NV 1877 Certificate: 'Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers' - Nevada

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This is a certificate from the 'Society of Pacific Coast Pioneers.' It was issued in 1877 for in Virginia City, Nevada, and has a nice vignette of a bear. It measures about 8.25" x 5" and is in clean condition.
The Society was a prestigious fraternal organization whose membership was restricted only to those individuals who had arrived in the Far West prior to the end of the California gold rush. Housed in an imposing building on B Street in downtown Virginia city, a block north of the Storey County courthouse, the club maintained opulent meeting rooms, billiard and card rooms, a library and extensive museum. All this was lost in the tragic fire which swept through Virginia City in October 1875. These denominated promissory notes were issued in an attempt to raise money to reconstruct the Society's hall, but as the Comstock mines began to decline in the late 1870s this organization slowly dwindled away. See our
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