Nevada Ghost Towns & Beyond

In 300 A.D., natives settled the Moapa Valley and the confluence of the Virgin and Muddy Rivers. Several cultures built a Puebloan city across the river from the ghost town of St. Thomas. Lake Mead's rising waters submerged what is now known as Lost City. Archeologists and the Civilian Conservation Corps excavated what they could and created the Lost City Museum to house relics. Basketmakers ... VIEW POST

St. Thomas is one of the better-known ghost towns in Nevada. With Lake Mead's creation, rising waters submerged one of Nevada's oldest established towns under sixty feet of water. Sixty-four years later, lower lake levels have made St. Thomas accessible to visitors. Flooding of a Different Type The story of most ghost towns in Nevada follows the same plot. First, a prospector strikes a ... VIEW POST

A new mystery to reserach One evening while watching old episodes of Wild Nevada, I learned about Deadman's Creek trail. The park ranger relayed the creek name's origin and the graves at the bottom of the trailhead. I paused the episode and started researching the story. Unfortunately, little information was available online, and the graves were not on the popular cemetery website, ... VIEW POST

Dayton Lime Works are little-known lime kilns in Lyon County. The trio of 150-year-old kilns are a one-of-a-kind piece of Nevada history. The lime they produced helped rebuild Virginia City after the Great Fire of 1875. I did more digging and found that the town owner, H.C. Blanchard, is Hank Blanchard, a well-known businessman in Bodie, California. He operated the toll road from Bodie to ... VIEW POST