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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 04/10/2026

You can find more photos and history of Northumberland @ www.nvexpeditions.com/nye/northumb.... Don't forget to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Northumberland • Nevada Expeditions

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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

The New Pass Fire has now exceeded 23,000 acres and is 15% contained. Fingers are crossed for favorable weather and further containment and control, and prayers for the safety of those working. Thank you to Matt Sprague for allowing me to use his photo from today. 🧵 3/3

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 30/07/2026

I had the opportunity to visit 20 years ago and tour the mine with Don Jung. Don and wife Kathy poured their hearts into the place for decades, and it showed. As I read memories posted by family members and friends, my heart hurts for them and their loss. Fortunately, the home has survived. 🧵 2/3

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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

You can find more photos and history of Gemville @ www.nvexpeditions.com/pershing/gem.... Don't forget to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Gemville • Nevada Expeditions

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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

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

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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

Find more photos and history of Massie @ www.nvexpeditions.com/churchill/ma.... Don't forget to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Massie • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 09/02/2026

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. 🧵 2/2

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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

See more of Bass Camp @ www.nvexpeditions.com/mineral/bass.... Remember to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Bass Camp • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 31/01/2026

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

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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

You can find more photos of Leith @ www.nvexpeditions.com/lincoln/leit.... Don't forget to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Leith • Nevada Expeditions

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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

You can find more photos and history of Willow Grove Station @ www.nvexpeditions.com/mineral/will.... Don't forget to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Willow Grove Station • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 30/01/2026

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. 🧵 3/3

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 30/01/2026

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. 🧵 2/3

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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

Check out more photos and history of Gold Springs, Utah @ beyond.nvexpeditions.com/utah/iron/go..., and remember you can find hundreds of other western ghost towns @ NVExpeditions.com!

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Gold Springs, Utah • Beyond Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 08/01/2026

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

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 08/01/2026

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

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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

You can find more photos and history of Fay @ www.nvexpeditions.com/lincoln/fay..... Don't forget to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Fay • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 08/01/2026

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

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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

See more of Deerlodge @ www.nvexpeditions.com/lincoln/deer.... Remember to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Deerlodge • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 06/01/2026

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

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 06/01/2026

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

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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

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Lima • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 18/12/2025

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

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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

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

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

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 17/12/2025

I just got my hands on a copy of Lawrence E. Meeker's new guidebook on the Carson & Colorado Railroad (predecessor of the N&C) between Hawthorne & Benton and learned that the original name for Borus was actually Seco! I also found several cool new-to-me nuggets to check out along the old line. 🧵 2/2

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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

Despite appearing staged for the photo shoot in the '20s, local Paiute tradition states that the ancient imagery refers to periods of flooding and possibly stories of a great sea serpent dwelling in the nearby lake. 🧵 2/2

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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

You can find more photos and history of Bull Creek @ www.nvexpeditions.com/whitepine/bu.... Remember to hit that Follow button to keep up with my adventures throughout Nevada and beyond!

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Bull Creek • Nevada Expeditions

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Nevada Expeditions @nvexpeditions.com · 07/11/2025

For more than the last one hundred years, however, what became known as the Bull Creek Ranch has led a quiet, peaceful existence; a verdant oasis hidden in a desert ravine. 🧵 2/2

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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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