slgwv's photos with the keyword: Palmetto

Nancy Walker, died 1906 (from what I can read; I didn't write down the inscription on the headstone). She was about 20; probably from childbed fever, which killed so many young women in those days.

Pigeon Spring, Palmetto district, Nevada, USA. The only wooden part that still survives is the frame for the stamps. The heyday of this district was around the turn of the last century.

Palmetto District, Nevada, USA.

The sign reads: "Thinking that local joshua trees were related to palm trees, the 1866 prospectors named the mining camp Palmetto. The town "died" and revived three times. New prospecting in 1903 caused Palmetto to grow to a town of 200 tents on a platted townsite. At its peak year, 1906, the commercial street, over ½ mile long, contained all the necessary mining camp businesses. Local miners drifted away in autumn, 1906. Mining, on a lease basis, has been minimal since that time. An important talc deposit lies nearby. "

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