Palmetto (ghost town)

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Coordinates: 37 ° 26 '40 "  N , 117 ° 41' 42"  W.

Palmetto is a ghost town in Esmeralda County in the state of Nevada .

View from Palmetto to the Sierra Nevada

location

A little off the Nevada State Route 266 are the remains of this mining settlement on the southwest slope of the Palmetto Mountains towards the Fish Lake Valley .

Naming

Since the Joshua palm lilies, which can be found in large numbers in the area, reminded the first settlers of palmetto palms , they named the city and special features of its surroundings palmetto.

history

As early as 1866, a settlement was built on Palmetto Wash, which was considered the local center of the silver mines in the area . In this year the remains of an ore mill, which can still be seen today, were built. The silver deposits turned out to be less rich than in other places, so that the settlement was abandoned again by 1869.

The discovery of new deposits in 1905 led to a brief revival of the city, in the summer of 1906 around 200 people lived here. The boom was short-lived, the decline began at the end of 1906, when a large number of settlers set off for other places in the area - for example Blair .

In 1920 there was the last attempt to build a settlement to exploit the surrounding mines, but this ended unsuccessfully before the end of the year.

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