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Category: Historical
Belmont Courthouse On the eastern side of the state of Nevada, the Basin and Range region is home to more ghost towns and abandoned mines. Belmont, Nevada was a thriving silver mining town in the 1860’s. After becoming the county seat, a two story courthouse was completed by 1874. The jail portion was located at … Continue reading Nevada – Belmont Ghost Town
Pah’rump is a Paiute expression meaning water rock. Refreshing and stable, this growing desert town is located an hour outside of Las Vegas and provides most amenities that traveling nomads need. With access to desert, mountains, springs and the wild west, there’s always a new day trip to explore. Goodsprings, NV Nevada has over 700 … Continue reading Home Base – Pahrump, NV
Columbus Salt Marsh The southern regions of Nevada mining produced a variety of ores and minerals besides gold and silver. Copper, borax, salt, iron ore, were profitable enough to bring miners and their families into the hills or flats to build settlements around the mines. Not as grand or wealthy as the boomtowns like Virginia … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 8 – Mina and vicinity
Abandoned Kiln at Aurora It was time to start heading south as our journey entered the return phase, however there were still many ghost towns and old mines to search out. Hawthorne, Nevada, home of the U.S. Army’s ammunitions storage depot, became our next base camp. We had stayed here in the early days of … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 7 – Base Camp Hawthorne
Wildfires were burning along the Nevada and California border when it was time for us to leave Dayton, NV and head west into the Sierra Mountains. We were consulting the “Watch Duty” app on our phones almost hourly to monitor the huge Park Fire that was about 50 miles north of our next destination and … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 6 – Reno, Verdi and Emigrant Pass
Bonanza!!!! The blueish-gray mud tossed aside as miners dug for gold was finally identified as raw silver. The Comstock Lode – the mother lode of silver – ran diagonally underground down the canyon and contained the richest deposit of raw silver that had ever been discovered. The 49ers of the gold rush were dwarfed by … Continue reading Old Mines and Ghost Towns – Part 5 – The Comstock
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