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Exploring Nevada and beyond, one ghost town at a time.

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 04/10/2026
These stone mill ruins are among the only visible remnants from Northumberland before the 20th century. This 10-stamp mill was built c.1879 to treat ore from the Blue Bell & Monitor mines. It only ran for 3 months. Most other remnants from Northumberland are buried under massive tailings piles.
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 03/10/2026
Us: "We're just going to have a nice, easy, leisurely day to go look at leaves" 🍂 Also us, .5 miles after leaving the pavement:
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 20/09/2026
A few shots from today's explorations just over the border in Sierra County. NVTami and I made a big loop through several places - and though one was a bust, others more than made up for it!
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 08/09/2026
The sun has officially set on the last camping trip of the year 🏕 NVTami and I spent Labor Day weekend on the trail, revisiting old favorites and finding a few new ones. It was a great trip, and we're already looking forward to the next!
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 30/07/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 19/07/2026
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! ⛰️
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 05/07/2026
At the townsite of Siegel, can't seem to get my car to turn over. Any advice?
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 27/06/2026
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.
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 07/06/2026
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.
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 12/02/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 09/02/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 31/01/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 30/01/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 30/01/2026
Willow Grove Station, miles from the nearest willow...or grove...😅 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 26/01/2026
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!
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 08/01/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 08/01/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 06/01/2026
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 18/12/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 17/12/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 14/11/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 07/11/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 05/11/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 03/11/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 25/10/2025
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! 🎃
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Churchill County Museum @churchillcomuse.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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!
A black and white photo showing the main street in Stillwater, ca 1900
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 03/10/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 28/09/2025
Not a bad start to Fall! 🌈🍂
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 23/09/2025
Silver was discovered in the Grant Range in 1867, giving rise to the town of Troy. English investors spent $500,000 to build a 20-stamp mill equipped with two furnaces in 1872, but the endeavor was ultimately a failure and Troy was all but abandoned within a few years. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 16/09/2025
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
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History:Nevada @historynevada.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 15/09/2025
The road to Morey can be described using the Three Rs: Rocky, Rough, and Rewarding. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 11/09/2025
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.
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 10/09/2025
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
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 10/09/2025
I think it's safe to say that the Hot Creek Range has the highest concentration of charcoal kilns anywhere in Nevada. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 05/09/2025
What. A. Weekend. 🤯 🧵 1/3
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 21/08/2025
It "Happened" in Hazen! But, what happened? You can read all about it and more than two dozen other stories from the Silver State in Nevada Gold!, a new book from my friend Mike Popovitch with dazzling illustrations from DMZ Fine Arts. Head on over to Barnes & Noble or Amazon to order your copy! 📙
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 18/08/2025
Let's talk Weslead. In early 1926, during the development of Leadfield (just over the border in California), T.I. Post surveyed the new townsite of Weslead to serve as a shipping point. 🧵 1/4 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 11/08/2025
Tokop, or not Tokop...wait, that's not the question! Tokop was a short-lived mining camp that began its life in 1902 when Robert Stewart staked claims high on a mountaintop. It's unique name comes from the Newe (Shoshone) word for 'snow'. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 09/08/2025
Nearly 3000 cars a day zoom between Tonopah and Goldfield, but 105 years ago you'd have been driving down Broadway in Divide City. 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 09/08/2025
Nearly 3000 cars a day zoom between Tonopah and Goldfield, but 105 years ago you'd have been driving down Broadway in Divide City. 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 06/08/2025
Klondike...or Klondyke...or Southern Klondike? All are correct, actually. Discoveries in 1899 brought prospectors to what was referred to as the 'Southern Klondike' after the earlier rush in Alaska. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 05/08/2025
This weekend, NVTami and I went down to Goldfield Days, where we got to meet some friends & followers before taking off on some Esmeralda explorations. We visited about a dozen new places, & I'm looking forward to sharing them with you. Just waiting on a few books, then I can dive in & get writing!
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 26/07/2025
Just ¾ of a mile beyond Shermantown lies Swansea, another of the early camps that emerged during the rush to White Pine. The townsite was laid out in 1868 with the hopes of being a prominent milling and smelting center, even growing to a peak population of 500 before the end of 1869. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada
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Churchill County Museum @churchillcomuse.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
On this day in 1896, Mike and Eliza Fallon established a post office on their ranch.As a town grew up around the crossroads that would become Maine and Williams, it was named “Fallon” in their honor. Want to know more about local place names? We’re working on an exhibit exploring that! Stay tuned!
A black and white portrait of an older man and woman, Mike and Eliza Fallon
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 25/07/2025
The roads may no longer exist, but real rewards await those who make it to Shermantown! 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 25/07/2025
The roads may no longer exist, but real rewards await those who make it to Shermantown! 🧵 1/3 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 24/07/2025
Short-lived Menken on the southern slope of Treasure Hill was laid out below the Mazeppa Mine in 1869. The Mazeppa was named for a popular play of the day, and Menken was named for its leading lady: Adah Isaacs Menken. 🧵 1/2 #Nevada #History #GhostTown
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 22/07/2025
Pocotillo, sometimes erroneously called Picotillo, was established on the eastern side of Treasure Hill in March 1869 amid the initial rush to White Pine. Though it was heavily promoted by developers, its steep location proved to be its downfall and it did not last beyond 1870. #Nevada #History
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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 20/07/2025
I'm taking a quick break from the tour of the White Pine District to wish a Happy Incorporation Day to the beautiful City of Ely - incorporated on this day in 1907! 🥳 I'll be back with more of the White Pine District tomorrow, so stay tuned! #Nevada #History #ElyNV
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