Belmont Nevada - Part 4 "A Courthouse One Can Treasure"
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Belmont Nevada - Part 4 "A Courthouse One Can Treasure"

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Belmont held the Nye County seat up until 1905 but the problem was that it had nowhere to house county functions. Due to the jail being housed in the basement of the town bank and prisoners escaping a courthouse would be built in 1875 at the cost of almost 6 thousand dollars. Its Italianate Architecture along with its cupola can be seen from anywhere in the town and today it is one of the most photographed courthouses in the American west. It was made right on site with bricks fired in a kiln to be precise over 25 thousands of them. While the bottom floor houses many county offices the second floor had a courtroom and judges chambers while the back area had a jail. That way the Sheriff and his Deputy had a place they could work out of since Belmont had plenty of lawlessness back in the day. Charlie Manson and his Family once squatted here back in 1969 but one of the locals with a shot gun supposedly chased him out today his name can be seen etched on a door frame within the courthouse. The courthouse is rumored to be very haunted but the only way to gain access today is to do repairs on it in exchange for access something were trying to look into. Ill take you on a brief tour around the courthouse and give you a tour of the jail cells which were removed at one time because they were sent to Gabbs then in the 1990's they made there way back to Belmont. When the courthouse had opened it had opened just in time for Independence Day and a ball was held here. While some men were jailed for their crimes here others were lynched not to far away from this courthouse.

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