Founded after silver was found at Mount Irish in 1865, with a post office by 1867 and largely abandoned by 1869 once the shallow high-grade ore ran out. Only stone foundations remain in the Pahranagat district, on rough desert roads.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: eplanning.blm.gov/public_projects/lup/87546/128764/156632/Appendix_Q.pdf