{"id":2082,"slug":"gold-hill-hotel-gold-hill-nevada","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["The Gold Hill Hotel is the state's oldest — the Riesen House of '61, the Comstock that it served. The Yellow Jacket is the tragedy — the '69 fire that was Nevada's worst, the 35-40 miners who were sealed in the tunnels. The union was the first — the '64 constitution on the hotel's steps, the miners' organizing that started there.","The Vesey was the host — the balls and the shootings, the proprietor who was shot at over a bill. The Rosie and William are the ghosts — the room hauntings that the staff name, the paranormal tours that the hotel hosts. The Gold Hill Hotel is the survivor — the 160 years that's the oldest, the Comstock's bar that's still open.","The file keeps the Gold Hill Hotel: the 1861 opening, the Yellow Jacket disaster, the union founding, and the ghosts.","The Gold Hill Hotel is the archive's Nevada file — the Comstock's oldest."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["The Gold Hill Hotel is the archive's Nevada file — the state's oldest inn.","A hotel keeps its sealed men — the file's suggestion being that Gold Hill's hold is the Yellow Jacket: the fire that was the worst, the miners in the tunnels, and the ghosts that are named."]}],"name":"Gold Hill Hotel","aliases":[],"type":"HOTEL","type_label":"Hotel","cats":["FRONTIER_HISTORY","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","HISTORIC_HOTEL","MINING_TOWN"],"groups":["legends","lodging"],"desc":"Nevada’s oldest hotel, a block from the Yellow Jacket fire shaft.","full_desc":"Gold Hill Hotel is a hotel in Gold Hill, Nevada, built in 1861. Nevada’s oldest hotel, a block from the Yellow Jacket fire shaft. Its signature presence is Rosie — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend, 1 documented fact and 1 named or described presence — documented record and retelling kept side by side. It still takes guests.","address":null,"city":"Gold Hill","county":null,"state":"Nevada","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":39.2931,"lon":-119.6561,"coord_kind":"EXACT","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":1861,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":70,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0.85,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":1322,"type":"NAMED_GHOST_LEGEND","description":"Inn lore describes miner figures and a woman called Rosie in the rooms. Gold Hill Hotel, a hotel in Gold Hill, Nevada, has kept the story in circulation longer than most of its guest registers. It circulates as local folklore — the kind communities keep rather than verify. The account appears in 'Gold Hill Hotel'. The name gives the haunting a face, and the sightings give the name a job.","evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","evidence_label":"Local folklore","entity":"Rosie","where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Gold Hill Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The hotel dates to 1861; the nearby Yellow Jacket Mine fire of 1869 killed 35 miners—the Comstock’s worst disaster. A hotel with this much documented history gives the dossier real substance underneath the lore. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Gold Hill Hotel' carry the record. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1861","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Gold Hill Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Inn lore describes miner figures and a woman called Rosie in the rooms. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The claim is neighborhood knowledge — retold locally, verified nowhere. The tale is the site's other archive — oral, embroidered, and outlasting the documents.","earliest":null,"evidence":"LOCAL_FOLKLORE","source":{"name":"Gold Hill Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"entities":[{"name":"Rosie","claimed_identity":"Rosie","verified":null,"summary":"Inn lore describes miner figures and a woman called Rosie in the rooms. The hotel keeps the account on its own record — the sort of haunting a building earns one guest at a time. The report is preserved in sources like 'Gold Hill Hotel'. The named presence is what turns a haunting into a household. It remains the site's standing claim.","behavior":"Inn lore describes miner figures and a woman called Rosie in the rooms.","area":null,"first_ref":null,"source":{"name":"Gold Hill Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Operating or preserved hotel property; public areas vary—check directly for tours or overnight stays.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Gold Hill Hotel","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_Hill_Hotel","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":1,"entities":1,"sources":1}}