"... And it isn't hard to imagine some hard working folk in these hills. A town over here, and a mini-city over there. All that sits in between are snakes ... and I'm not talking about the rattling king." -- March 2008

Along US 6/50/93, 13 miles south of Ely

White Pine
39.088703, -114.752633

Original Date Visited: 3/14/08
Signed: Dual-signed with Marker 54. Signed on both lanes of US 6/50/93

TWO FOR ONE

This marker shares its site with - 99 - Taylor

Street View

Here's what you'll see!

Marker 54 and the Egan Range in the background The face off between Markers 54 and 99 in lonely eastern Nevada. Ward, Nevada circa 1880.

Exact Description:
The ghost town of Ward, in the foothills of the Egan Range, lies some eight miles west of here. Booming from 1876 until 1882, with a peak population of 1,500, Ward was somewhat of a lawless mining camp. Early killings did occur, but justice was meted out by the vigilante committee and the hanging rope.

A million dollars worth of silver was taken from a single chamber of the Ward Mine, yet the abandoned house was used for the first school and no movement was ever started to build a church.

The town was abandoned by the late 1880s, but new discoveries and better mining methods prompted a resurgence of activity in 1906 and again in the 1960s.