NOTICE

Due to fire damage, the Foreman-Roberts House Museum is closed until further notice. We are working to rectify this situation. The adjoining Carriage House building is in good condition, but not generally open to the public while we are involved in clean-up operations.

Jim Thorpe Video Collection in Carriage House
July 2017

Many of Jim Thorpe's video tapes have a new home in the Carriage House starting this month. Over a span of many years, Jim video recorded numerous meetings, lectures, ceremonies, sporting events, Nevada Day parades, concerts, and other events in Carson City, mostly on VHS and Super VHS tapes. In an April 8, 2014, interview, Jim claimed to have about 4000 tapes, some of which were personal ones which he did not wish to share with the public. However, most of them were of Carson events, and he kept an index of his recordings on a series of yellow legal pads. We are storing about 1072 of these tapes and the index that Jed Block acquired for CCHS from Jim before his death, and we hope to eventually obtain some of his other tapes related to Carson City history from his family. The tapes are not necessarily well organized at this time, but they reflect a wide range of interesting topics.

A sample of tapes from one randomly selected box includes the following: Nevada State Museum tapings of "Slot Machine History by Marshall Fey" (1999), "Mammoths of the Black Rock Desert" (1999), "Native American Basket Collection" (1999), "Historic Archeology of the Carson City, US Branch Mint" (1999), "A Cowhand's Song: Crisis on the Range" (1999), "The Lives of Nevada's Women in History" (2000), "The Silver Service of the Battleship U.S.S. Nevada" (2000), and "200 Years of Doll Makers and Their Art" (2000); a Leisure Hour Club taping of "The School Bond Issue" (2002); a Nevada State Railroad Museum tape on "Snowbound Streamliner" (2000); and a Carson Middle School tape on "Flag Retiring Ceremony & Veteran Commemoration" (2002).

It will not be an easy process to properly handle this legacy of Carson City history. The likely first phase of dealing with these tapes is to organize them and do a proper inventory. Because of the unstable nature of the VHS media, we eventually want to transfer many of these tapes to more modern and stable media, such as hard drives.

Emphasis on Early History of Carson City
Seeking Authenticated Items, Documents, etc.

April 2017: The emphasis of Foreman-Roberts House Museum is to showcase early history of Carson City and Ormsby County. We are hoping you, your relatives, or your friends may have authenticated items, documents, or whatever that can be exhibited in the house. Please call Gary Cain, President, 775-885-7643, with information or questions on possible historical items available, or come to the next Board meeting on Monday, May 8, 1:30 p.m., in the Carriage House. This is an advance notice, as it will probably be fall before the Museum is ready to be refurnished. Thank you for your consideration of our request.

Shown at right is Abraham Curry, Founder of Carson City.

Annual Ice Cream Social
Saturday, August 12, 2017

The annual CCHS Ice Cream Social is Saturday, August 12, 2017, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. (new time this year) at the Foreman-Roberts House Museum, 2107 N. Carson St., Carson City. Free entertainment will be provided by the Millennium Bugs. The Carson City Historical Society sponsors this event.

Enjoy ice cream and other refreshments for only $3. Exhibitors will will be at the event to discuss their projects and interests.

The Ice Cream Social is during the second weekend of the Jazz & Beyond Carson City Music Festival. For more information about the festival, go to JazzCarsonCity.com.

Further details were still pending as of April 10. If you have questions, contact Gary Cain at 775-885-7643.

Mailing Address for CCHS

The mailing address for the Carson City Historical Society (CCHS) is:

The physical address for the Foreman-Roberts House Museum is 1207 North Carson St., but that address is not our official mailing address.

CCHS board meetings are held the second Monday of each month at 1:30 p.m. at the Foreman-Roberts House Museum.

If you are interested in being put on the CCHS e-mail list, please send an e-mail to Dcbugli@aol.com and put "CCHS Membership Addition" in the subject line. We will inform you about upcoming events of the Society via e-mail.