Following the discovery of gold and silver in 1859 on the nearby Comstock Lode, Carson City's population began to rise.

Carson City's development was no longer dependent on the mining industry and instead became a thriving commercial center.

Carson City's population and transportation traffic decreased when the Southern Pacific Railroad built a line through Donner Pass, too far to the north to benefit Carson City.

It is located in the center of the Carson City's Historic District.

New Washoe City's ZIP code is 89704 and is associated with Washoe Valley, although it is commonly also associated with Carson City, even though it is entirely within Washoe County borders.

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

The Legislature named Carson City to be the seat of Ormsby County and selected the hotel as the territorial prison with Curry serving as its first warden.

In 2008 however Barack Obama became the first Democrat since 1964 to win Ormsby County / Carson City, defeating John McCain 49 % to 48 %, by 204 votes, a margin of under 1 %.

The Cougars made the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in 1929 with Carson Cooper leading the team in scoring.

He had a total of fifteen Carson children: five by Lucy Bradley, his first wife, and ten by Kit Carson's mother, Rebecca Robinson.

There, when the party was attacked, Carson first saw combat.

In 1849 the first of many Carson action novels appeared.

This was the first time that Carson had come in contact with his own myth.

In Willa Cather's novel Death Comes for the Archbishop ( 1927 ), the legend of Kit Carson is explored, first as compassionate friend to the natives, later as " misguided " soldier.

* Carson Cistulli: Senior editor of FanGraphs, Cistulli is the founder of statistics such as SCOUT and NERD, and one of the first poets to include sabermetrics in his poetic oeuvre.

The first U. S. patent for SSB modulation was applied for on December 1, 1915 by John Renshaw Carson.

The first was a personal foul called on Harry Carson, who was penalized for hitting Winder out of bounds.

* August 9, 1988 – Traded by the Edmonton Oilers, along with Mike Krushelnyski and Marty McSorley, to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Jimmy Carson, Martin Gelinas, Los Angeles's 1989, 1991 and 1993 first round draft choices, and $ 15, 000, 000.

In 1952, Warner Bros. made their first film ( Carson City ) in " Warnercolor ", the studio's name for Eastmancolor.

* On August 9, 1988, in what became the biggest trade in NHL history ( also known as " The Trade Of The Century "), Wayne Gretzky was traded along with teammates Marty McSorley and Mike Krushelnyski from Edmonton to the Los Angeles Kings in exchange for Martin Gelinas, Jimmy Carson, three first round draft picks, and $ 15 million cash ( approximately $ 18 million CAD in 1988 ).

Prinze was the first young comedian to be asked to have a sit-down chat with Carson on his first appearance.

* 1987 – Ben Carson, leading a 70-member medical team in Germany, was the first to separate occipital craniopagus twins.

In the " Hippogriff Cookbook " ( 2010 ) reportedly " the first literary work written exclusively for e-reader technology ," British authors Benjamin Leeds Carson and Perre DiCarlo introduce fictional wizards to the culinary value of the animal, which " giveth from its forelegs and wings a tender poultry, from its rear a robust steak, as well as both creamy milke and eggs that seemeth to emerge already soft boiled.

Kit Carson was the first of these famous men.

In the summer of 1956, North Carolina State College enrolled its first African-American undergraduates, Ed Carson, Manuel Crockett, Irwin Holmes, and Walter Holmes.

In exchange, the Oilers received $ 15 million US cash, young star Jimmy Carson, 1988 first round draft choice Martin Gelinas, and the Kings ' first round draft picks in 1989, 1991, and 1993.

The School of Sustainability and the Environment, founded June 2009, further expands the potential of the Eden Hall Campus and honors the legacy of its 1929 alumna and founder of the modern environmental movement, Rachel Carson.

In 1889, Elbert County was reduced to its modern size when its eastern portions were taken to create Lincoln, Kit Carson, and Cheyenne counties.

Although modern critics of Carson have argued that the bird deaths were caused by other factors such as mercury poisoning in the soil, spraying against elm bark beetles declined very rapidly after 1962, a trend aided by fungicides without dangerous side-effects being discovered for the first time after many years of research.

Preservation again came to the fore in the 1960s with the publication of Rachel Carson ’ s Silent Spring in 1962, which was the genesis of the modern environmental movement.

At least two Carson Whitsett collaborations are considered modern day Blues standards in Joe Louis Walker's " Blues of the Month Club " and the W. C.

JAC uses a smaller urban bus that is ideal for Carson City.

Passenger trains haven't served Carson City since 1948, Greyhound Lines stopped their bus services to the town in 2006 and Amtrak discontinued their connecting thruway bus to Sacramento in 2008.

The city operates the Carson Circuit bus that serves the local community and connects to other bus services and the Del Amo Station, as well as the North-South Shuttle which connects Carson to the Artesia Transit Center.

Carson City is governed via the mayor-council system.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

* Carson bandwidth rule, rule regarding bandwidth in a communications system

The SP narrow gauge system operated on the tracks of the former Carson and Colorado Railroad which was purchased by SP in 1900.

It has been sustained to the present by continual state intervention to protect its system of privilege without which its survival is unimaginable .” Carson argues that in a truly laissez-faire system, the ability to extract a profit from labor and capital would be negligible.

" Contemporary " mutualists like Kevin Carson ( as opposed to " classical " mutualists such Pierre-Joseph Proudhon ) advocate a form of mutualism termed " Free Market Socialism " ( which is not the same as Market Socialism ) as an alternative to both Capitalism and State Socialism, noting that a decentralized system can be self-regulating.

Delicias is home to a campus of the Universidad Autónoma de Chihuahua, which forms part of the state university system, the Instituto Tecnológico de Delicias ( Technical Institute of Delicias ) and a number of art, linguistic and technical secondary schools such as CEUN, Carson College, the Lincoln Institute, Sokhôl Dance School, the Madison School, Henry Ford Institute, the Michigan English Institute and the Culture House.