In 1953, a pumice block bathhouse with two steam rooms was built using a hot well located fifty years earlier by a survey crew. It lasted between ten and twenty years before it was torn down, but steam still erupted from the well until the geothermal plant was built in the 80s. 🧵 2/2
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?
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Within its first year, though, the same railroad which brought Massie to life moved its facilities to the new station at Hazen (which would later become the junction point), and Massie was left to the alkali and sand.
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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.
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Bass Camp, home of Mr. & Mrs. A.A. Bass. In 1908, Mr. Bass - one of Tonopah's original settlers - made a rich strike which led to the formation of short-lived Ibex. Though Ibex didn't last very long, Mr. & Mrs. Bass remained at their "cabin under the rock" until their deaths in 1930 & 1934. 🧵 2/2
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...
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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.
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Willow Grove Station only lasted a little more than a decade before abandonment, but substantial rock ruins remain 140 years later. Other interesting - to me, at least - circular rock alignments are also found nearby.
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When J.J. Holmes completed construction of the Aurora to Columbus Wagon Road in 1874, Willow Grove Station served as a stop along the route - with deplorable conditions, according to one letter from early 1875.
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Was this part of the plan today? No. Am I complaining? Also no. 😆
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Unfortunately, prosperity was short-lived and the Jennie experienced legal and financial difficulties. Gold Springs emptied, and save for a small revival in the 1930s, only intermittent work has been done since. 🧵 3/3
In 1906, the Gold Springs townsite was laid out near the Jennie Mine, which soon had a 30-ton Nissen stamp mill. Within a few years, Gold Spring's population skyrocketed to 250 and the Jennie Mill was enlarged to 100-tons and gained a cyanide plant. 🧵 2/3
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.
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Peaking at around 150 people with numerous businesses and services, Fay was a producer until the early 1910s before it finally became a ghost. More recent mining has occurred, but Fay never revived and most of its remains were destroyed by the 2014 Cottonwood Fire. 🧵 2/2
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.
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After Deerlodge's life as a mining camp, the Hackett family stayed and shifted the focus to ranching. There the family remained until 1959, when the ranch was sold and subsequently abandoned. 🧵 3/3
In 1900, however, the new camp of Fay a few miles away proved to be more productive and most of Deerlodge's population - and buildings - soon moved there. 🧵 2/3
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.
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Unfortunately, Lima's mines had a flooding problem and the town withered in 1867. Some of the most peculiarly shaped ruins I've ever seen can be found at the site. 🧵 2/2
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
