Nevada Expeditions
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Exploring Nevada and beyond, one ghost town at a time.
Tonight, my thoughts are on the New Pass fire and the extensive damage to the New Pass Mine. Usually, there's always a bit of despair when we lose these historic places, but this one hits different. This wasn't some just old mine that had been abandoned for years. 🧵 1/3
Not a bad way to spend a Saturday. This one has been high on my list for a while - and at an elevation of more than 10,000', that pun is completely intended! ⛰️
At the townsite of Siegel, can't seem to get my car to turn over. Any advice?
Gemville 💎 Named for the "Gem of Sierra" mine, Gemville or Gem City was an early day camp dating to the 1860s. It was never particularly large, and finally disappeared from maps around the turn of the 20th century.
Since I forget to post here sometimes, here's a cool one from Memorial Day Weekend! Something you don't see every day, club soda bottled at an old Nevada mine! 💧 This was a place I've wanted to check out for quite a while.
Most people around the Fallon area are familiar with Soda Lake and the old soda works that were lost beneath its surface, but did you know that in the last century there was also a bathhouse built nearby? 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #HotSprings
Massie: 123 years ago, there was a bright outlook for this little stop on the SPRR. It was to be the junction point for a line to the burgeoning new town of Fallon! A fast freight line already connected the two points, and Massie was the point on the rails from which Fallon got its mail. 🧵 1/2
Another Bucket List Item! ☑ Last weekend, NVTami and I were out looking for a couple of spots for an upcoming project. I looked at the map and saw we just so happened to be only about 10-ish miles from this site that I'd been dying to get to... 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
I was really hoping I'd find more about this one... Leith was a non-agency station and siding along the Union Pacific Railroad's Salt Lake Route. 🚂 That's it. That's the post. #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Was this part of the plan today? No. Am I complaining? Also no. 😆 Make sure to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures, and don't forget you can find hundreds of other ghost towns and historic places in Nevada and beyond @ NVExpeditions.com!
Over 125 years ago, you might have known it as Aqua or Pike's Diggings, but Gold Springs is the name that stuck around. Just over the Utah border from Fay and Deerlodge, Pike's Diggings (or Aqua in 1899) came to life during the same rush as those two camps. 🧵 1/3 #Utah #History #GhostTown
In 1900, A.W. McCune started the camp of Fay City, named for his daughter near the Horseshoe Mine, where he planned to construct a new 90-ton mill and cyanide plant. The mill started up that August, and Fay quickly overshadowed the earlier camp of Deerlodge. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Not letting a little snow slow me down! ❄ Deerlodge came to life in 1896 after gold was found near the Utah state line. Fire forced the camp to move early on, and once rebuilt the new town had log cabins and a post office. 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Is it Lima, or Lima? Regardless of the pronunciation, it was a small, short-lived camp during the 1860s that began its life under the name "Williamsburg". At its peak, it held a post office, hotel, store, and a purported population of fifty. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Borus is little more than a speck on the map along the Nevada & California Railroad, but from 1910-1916 it was the site of a 50-ton Chilean mill. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
In 1924, the Agai-Pah pictographs were used as the backdrop for this photo by Edward S. Curtis, called "The primitive artists", depicting a "Paviotso man standing, marking side of glacial boulder that already has petroglyphs on it." 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
Yokum's or Bull Spring Station was one of the earliest stations along the roads leading to and from Hamilton in the late 1860s. It was also the site of horse racing a decade later! 🏇 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Even though some maps still show it, you won't find gas at Lockes! ⛽ As early as the 1860s, Keyser Springs on the west side of Railroad Valley were used as a stop for freighters between Hamilton and Reveille. 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Silverton - not Colorado, but Nevada! Little Silverton came to be after Italian immigrant J.C. Tognoni discovered silver in 1912. The camp didn't form until closer to 1920, and even then only lasted a short period. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
Tonight in Fallon, I'm hosting Lariat Frights at the Oats Park Art Center. The highlight is the Trick-or-Treat Trail, but there will also be food, drink, and fun for the whole family! Best of all - admission is free! 🎃
On this day in 1867, the town of Stillwater (then the largest community in the county) became the Churchill County seat, taking it from the dying town of La Plata. To learn more, visit our Settling the County Exhibit to learn more!
Unusually named Ullaine was a small camp that emerged between 1906 and 1910. Variously spelled as Eullaine, Ulaine, Eulaine, and maybe others, the camp was named for the original discoverer's wife (though one unsupported story claims it was after a popular brand of kerosene at the time). #Nevada
Hot Creek: home to one of Nevada's most iconic homes. Started 1867 as two separate mining towns, Hot Creek became an important ranching community after 1870. J.T. Williams and his wife Sophie transformed the two townsites into productive ranches, known today as Upper and Lower Hot Creek. 🧵 1/2
Nevada Hills Mill Company's concentrating mill and cyanide plant started work at Fairview, NV (in Churchill County east of Fallon) on Sep 15, 1911. It operated at least into 1917. t.co/Y34khdYSJy
The road to Morey can be described using the Three Rs: Rocky, Rough, and Rewarding. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
William T. Pritchard (aka "Nick of the Woods") built this stone station about 1874 on his newly completed toll road between Tybo and Eureka (and on to the railroad at Palisade). It was also a junction point for those traveling to Pioche and Hamilton. It isn't clear when it was finally abandoned.
The late author Shawn Hall described Moore's Station as his personal favorite, and it's easy to see why. The attractive stone house was built in the 1870s by the Moore brothers, who operated it as a station on the road between Tybo and Eureka. 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
