Death, Decay, and Desolation in the Delamar Ghost Town
0An iconic image of the Old West is a remote, abandoned, fading ghost town slowly being lost to time and the elements. The ghost town of Delamar, Nevada is like that. Three thousand hardy people once lived in Delamar during its heyday from about 1895 to 1900 or so. The town boasted a hospital, a school, an opera house, a cemetery, churches, saloons, houses, a MASSIVE mill, and other businesses. It must've been quite the place! A massive wildfire destroyed much of the town in 1900. The town was rebuilt somewhat and continued having residents until about 1920 or so. It never regained the size it had before the fire, though.
While exploring the ghost town with Nick from the Miner49er channel, I found the lower part of an old bottle that was over 100 years old! Wild horses and burros were also nearby and keeping a watchful eye on me as I explored. Some of the walls still standing in the town were over two-stories tall! The mill foundation is really super-impressive. It's huge! And it's made of neatly stacked rocks that were all put into position by hand! The sheer size and scope of the mill foundation is amazing to see in person. I also visited the town's can dump and the town's cemetery where there were gravestones dating back to the late 1800s! Another interesting thing I found was a series of partially buried metal barrels in the town. Was this some kind of bridge or flash-flood control? Or was it where the town stored its drinking water which was pumped in from a well 12 miles away?
Delamar was where the miners and their families lived, but only the men worked in the massive Delamar Mine. The mine was nicknamed the "Widow Maker" because many miners died from silicosis caused from breathing the dust inside the mine. Nick and I explored the Delamar Mine and probably walked a couple miles total through its extensive drift tunnels. My three-part video series documenting the Delamar Mine and its main haulage tunnel is here if you haven't seen it yet: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxXBSmoq8tro4V2a4eXn5rp2rHXe3qGvt
Head on over to Nick's YouTube channel and check out his many interesting uploads of abandoned mines including the mine at Delamar. He uploads pretty much on a weekly basis, so don't forget to subscribe to his channel as well. Nick's channel is here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5-1Mf2hhH-vo_uGT4lBC6w
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