Fletcher Station was built in the 1860s by H.D. Fletcher. During the Aurora and Bodie mining boom the station served as an important way station or "switching station" where teamsters and stagecoaches could trade out for fresh horses. The Fletchers also raised and sold fresh produce, frogs and fish from their ponds. Fletcher was located on the crossroads of two major routes. The Carson to ... VIEW POST
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Sunshine Station, Nevada
A few feet inside of the Nevada border, on Bodie Road, sits the ruins of a stone building. Bodie Creek runs nearby, leaving the lower elevations marshy. The walls are overgrown with wild pink roses, leaving only the four corners of the rock structure exposed. Why are the ruins in a canyon notorious for flash floods and washouts and so far from Bodie and Aurora? Bodie Aurora ... VIEW POST
Lucky Boy, Nevada
The road joining Hawthorne to Bodie washed out due to heavy rainfall in 1906. The Bodie-Hawthorne road was crucial to transporting items over the Wassuk Range between booming Bodie and the Carson & Colorado Railroad station in Hawthorne. Two workmen were repairing road washouts discovered a ledge of promising ore containing silver and lead. Despite primitive conditions, these "lucky ... VIEW POST
Orizaba Ghost Town
Orizaba is a ghost town in Northern Nye County, Nevada, outside of Gabbs. The Orizaba mining claims were one of the region's largest producers and most developed mines. The claims changed hands multiple times, including a tenacious miner working the mine since he was a child. Orizaba has significant ruins, including the smelter end headframe, rock building and shops. Orizaba Mining ... VIEW POST
Keane Wonder Mine, California
In 1904 Jack Keane and Domingo Etcharren, “the one-eyed Basque butcher of Ballarat", searched for silver deposits in Death Valley. They explored the Funeral Mountains on the east side of the valley. Domingo abandoned the search but Keane continued to scout the area. Instead of silver ore, he located a ledge of gold ore. Keane and Etcharren established and patented eighteen mining ... VIEW POST
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