Stock up, enjoy a tasty meal, delve into history, or stay the night.
With Hwy. 50 as our Main Street, most attractions and restaurants are all walkable stops. A place many call home and our quality of life is the gold standard.
Eureka, Nevada is a thriving survivor of the "boom and bust" era, and proves every day that some booms, last.
Founded 1864 Established 1870
County Seat 1873
Eureka was discovered in September of 1864 by silver prospectors, WR. Tannehill, GT. Tannehill, JW. Smith and Moses Wilson from nearby Austin. They were not disappointed as they found rock containing a silver-lead ore in New York Canyon near the present site of Eureka. In 1869 Major William M. McCoy and Alonzo Monroe selected a site for a town in what was known as Horse Thief Canyon. The town was later surveyed and on January 27, 1870 the Post Office was established and it was officially named “Eureka.”
Eureka became a fast growing, boom town coming in second only to the Comstock Lode of Virginia City.
