Marietta - Nevada Ghost Town

MARIETTA

NAME: Marietta
COUNTY: Mineral
ROADS: 2WD
GRID: 5
CLIMATE: Cold in winter, Hot in summer.
BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring and Fall.

COMMENTS: Semi-Ghost. Still a small population here. Keep an eye out for the wild burros and mustangs that are in the area! Great article on Marietta.
REMAINS: Several cabins, foundations, a cemetary and MANY mines.

Marietta was a source of salt and borax starting about 1867. Marietta became a town in 1877 and within one year contained 150 people, 13 saloons, a post office, several stores, and many stone and adobe huts. The daily horse stage was robbed 30 times in 1880 and in one week of that year it was robbed 4 times! The borax plants maintained productions until the 1890's and were then abandoned for the more prosperous sites in Death Valley. Submitted by: Cat Evans Marietta, Nevada: Here's another article on Marietta, eleven years before the last one I sent you, and also, on the last resident. Article by Nell Murbarger, Ghost Town Prospector. Desert Magazine, March 1957, Page 17. Five photos and a DM map. Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Dolores Steele	Marietta Courtesy Cat Evans Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Traffic Courtesy Paul and Mary Hamilton Marietta Courtesy Dolores Steele Marietta Courtesy Dolores Steele Marietta Courtesy Dolores Steele Marietta Courtesy Dolores Steele

Marietta was a source of salt and borax starting about 1867. Marietta became a town in 1877 and within one year contained 150 people, 13 saloons, a post office, several stores, and many stone and adobe huts. The daily horse stage was robbed 30 times in 1880 and in one week of that year it was robbed 4 times! The borax plants maintained productions until the 1890's and were then abandoned for the more prosperous sites in Death Valley.

Submitted by: Cat Evans

Marietta, Nevada: Here's another article on Marietta, eleven years before the last one I sent you, and also, on the last resident. Article by Nell Murbarger, Ghost Town Prospector. Desert Magazine, March 1957, Page 17. Five photos and a DM map.