SYLVANIA
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NAME: Sylvania COUNTY: Esmeralda ROADS: 2WD GRID: 1 CLIMATE: Warm summers. Often cold and snowy in winter. BEST TIME TO VISIT: Spring to Autumn. Winter if you're adventurous. |
COMMENTS:
Stone ruins amid newer wood frame buildings. Several of the buildings are occupied in summer and have notes displyed in the windows asking that one respect their private property. Please take heed of their requests. REMAINS: Stone ruins. Wooden cabins. Stone foundations. Mill foundations. Modern mining machinery. Vehicles from WW2 to 1960s. |
| An obscure camp located in the Sylvania Mountains straddling the California / Nevada state boundary southeast of Fish Lake Valley. Silver-lead ores were discovered in 1869. About three years later, a mining district was organized and a camp formed. The earliest building materials were stone and piņon logs. It is said that Christian B. Zabriskie, who came to fame in the U.S. Borax operations at Death Valley, ran a general store here. In 1875 a 30-ton smelter was erected and operated, running for four years before shutting down. The camp remained quiet after 1880. Since then leasers have remained active and the canyon has stone ruins amid maintained homes. Submitted by: David A. Wright |
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