Address Restricted, Virginia City, Nevada. County/parish: Storey.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places March 24, 1978. NRIS 78001728.
1 contributing site. 600 contributing structures.Also known as:
The Lagomarsino Petroglyph Site (26ST1) is a 65-acre (26 ha) archeological site of petroglyphs, located in Storey County, Nevada near Virginia City. It was listed for its potential to yield information in the future and includes one contributing site with approximately 2000 items.
A 2012 Nevada Rock Art Foundation publication documents the location and describes its history. Rock art in Langomarsino Canyon, in the Virginia Range of Nevada, is in a south-facing 1,706 feet (520 m) section of a basalt cliff and talus below, at the location of a small perennial spring and campsite.
The first archeological photographs were taken in 1904 by a John Reid, of Reno, Nevada and anthropologist Julian Steward used them in his 1929 work Petroglyphs of California and Adjoining States. It was more systematically documented in 1958.
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