In a Northern Nevada boomtown, under several layers ... It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the Silver State’s founding. Joe Curtis, a Virginia ...

Most in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in central and northern parts of Nevada where mining was more abundant in the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Megg Mueller, who has co-authored a book on ...

Nevada’s mining history began. Ten years later, the Comstock Lode—one of the richest silver strikes in history—put Washoe, as the area was then known, on the map. For the next several ...