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Posted: 12/30/2004 4:17:51 PM EDT
I went for a drive today and drove through a town in Nevada about 90 miles north of Vegas called Alamo it is a town of a few hundred people. Well, I saw a cemetary sign and decided to check it out.....I don't know why but I just like rural cemetaries...
Here is Riley he died not too long ago but was a teenager   Here is one for the owners of the Sharp Ranch  ...and the back of that headstone is pretty neat  Gardner was only 2 years old  Emma was only 3 days old  Ernest was only a few months old and I'd say had the most interesting headstone in the entire cemetary...I like how it is handmade. I'm sure Ernest never thought he would be on the internet....  Little Dougie was only 4 days old 
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Posted: 12/30/2004 4:19:17 PM EDT
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Wouldnt you say this thread is rather ghoulish?
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Posted: 12/30/2004 4:25:58 PM EDT
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For me it is interesting. Some might enjoy the pics...some won't. |
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Posted: 12/30/2004 7:47:50 PM EDT
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I stayed in the house just next to that cemetary. My sister still lives down the dirt road.
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Posted: 12/30/2004 8:13:59 PM EDT
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Have you ever been to Delamar? |
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Posted: 12/31/2004 12:53:59 AM EDT
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Im not saying I dont like the pics, its just a little different. I thought Id seen it all on this forum. First it was dinner pics, which I still dont understand, Those dioramas done with GI Joe men, and now this. I see your point about old cemetaries, Ive found some and walked around in them. I kind of creeped out by those pics. At any rate thanks for sharing.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 1:04:10 AM EDT
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Children and heroes are the only persons deserving of headstones.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 1:25:56 AM EDT
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You have issues!
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Posted: 12/31/2004 5:22:06 AM EDT
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I have been known to kick around old grave yards in my time too. Here is a pic of a headstone in Central City Colorado. I took it in 1987 on a cross country trip. I was moving to D.C. and had 3 weeks to get there and I was alone. I took every little back road I could find meandering back and forth across the country. I knew I would never have a chance to do that again. I saw some very interesting things to say the least.
What drew me to this headstone was the "creative" math. I guess people counted differently a hundred years before   Here is a close up of the text......I couldn't help but wonder what people said at the time. Did the family get a refund? Why didn't the guy fix this? Were people in the Colorado minining country that illiterate at the time? 
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Posted: 12/31/2004 7:08:19 AM EDT
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Posted: 12/31/2004 10:59:34 AM EDT
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i think it's cool to see non-gun threads. Post more of your exploration/adventures when you get a chance, WP.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 11:14:36 AM EDT
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Old cemetery's can be way cool and give a glimpse into the lives (and deaths) of people from a bygone day. The cemetery adjacent to Silver City, ID, is a cool place to visit with many old headstones...some as far back as the late 1800's. Up the road from Silver City there is another graveyard that has a lot of simple "Unknown" markers. My guess is that a number of transient miners who died from one cause or another (cave-ins or lead poisoning) are buried there. There are also chinese cemeteries which are less well marked and hard to discern in some cases. If ar10er is reading this he may be able to comment on the cemeteries up near Idaho City ('bout 30-40 miles outta Boise).
Notable in these old cemeteries is the number of infants and children. Seems outta whack, ratio-wise, with the number of adults. Understandable, however, given the remoteness of some of these places and the lack of modern meds. |
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Posted: 12/31/2004 12:58:00 PM EDT
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Wolfpack, You mised the 2 most important ones there. My Grandfather and Grandmother.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 1:21:55 PM EDT
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Seriously? What are the names? There were a ton of people with the last name of Richards. |
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Posted: 12/31/2004 1:30:41 PM EDT
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Marion and Louise Stewart.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 1:44:38 PM EDT
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Hmmm...it was freezing and the wind was blowing so I just mainly took pics of some children's headstones and that big one for the Sharp Ranch...I'll look next time I go up there. Do you ever visit it?
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Posted: 12/31/2004 1:57:40 PM EDT
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I pass through when I go up north a few times a year. My mother was raised there. Her 2 sisters still live there with their husbands and I have a couple of cousins and their family that still live there. In town(by the highschool I believe) There is a monument to vetrans and service men from the town. My fathes name is on that list. Someone in my family wrote and had printed a hard back book on the history of pahranagat valley. My mom might have an extra copy if your interested. She was selling them at the 100 yr anniversary of Alamo. Not sure how much they were selling for. My father was the son of a sheep rancher out of CedarCity Utah. His summers were spent in the mountains of Utah, but he went to school in Alamo. He played on the basket ball team and won several state championships . Mom was a chearleader and traveled with the team, and thats how they met.
Im sure this is boring. |
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Posted: 12/31/2004 2:14:36 PM EDT
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Not boring for me.If your mom has a book she wants to sell I'm interested for sure. I just sent in $20 to get the Lincoln County Record sent to my house for the next year. I want to move to Lincoln County someday, what do you or your family think of the new "master planned community" going in at the Lincoln/Clark County line?
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Posted: 12/31/2004 2:31:26 PM EDT
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I talked to my Mother, and she has some extra books. They were around $25-35. Since you live here in town, it would be easier to meet face to face rather than to mail it if your interested. The cemetary you were in , was it north of town a little ways? I read some of the names to my mom . She recognized the name Formaster. They lived in Richardsville which is a group of ranches and farms just north of Alamo a few miles. Sounds like you were at the Richardsville cemetary. My grand parents arent burried there. The Alamo cemetary is behind some of the fields as you come into Alamo. You have to make a left on the first street as you come into town, Take it past the elemtry school and high school. On your right is the old school house. Just past that, you make a left down a dirt road and the cemetary is down that road past the sewage ponds and to the left from the dump.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 2:40:01 PM EDT
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When you get that book just send me an IM and I'll meet with you..I want to read it. The cemetary I was at was right off of 93....I'll check the other out next trip up. Past Caliente is a real interesting cemetary where the town of Bullionville used to be, I have pics of that one too..
    
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Posted: 12/31/2004 3:35:08 PM EDT
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I can pick up the book anytime you would like. Forgot, My cousin is a realtor in Alamo too.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 3:45:17 PM EDT
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Whenever is easiest for you....just send me that IM to pick it up. 
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Posted: 12/31/2004 4:57:14 PM EDT
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Have you ever been to Delamar? No I havent. |
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Posted: 12/31/2004 6:00:07 PM EDT
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My grand father and my dad(when he was young) ran sheep around Delamar when they would trail them from Cedar City heading south for the winter.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 6:44:31 PM EDT
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I wanna set up a "Ghost town shoot" for the NV members here and one of the possible places is Delamar. If we did this in Feb or March it would be a go and come back in one day if we did it in late april-early june it could be a camp trip for 1 or 2 nights.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 6:55:11 PM EDT
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I like going to those old cemetaries...............lots of history
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Posted: 12/31/2004 7:28:46 PM EDT
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Last I heard , Delamar had been bought by some company and they chained the road. Dont know if it's true or not. I was told that by a lady working at the gas station in caliente.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 8:27:47 PM EDT
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Not true...I was there last April/May. Delamar is about 15 miles off the pavement and hardly anybody even attempts to go there...there are even state signs on hwy 93 telling you what dirt road to take to go there. It's so big it would take 2 days just to explore the whole area, I didn't find it but there is a 2 story building still standing. The abandoned town of Helene is right next door...as are the cemetaries for both towns...I didn't find either cemetary.
      
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Posted: 12/31/2004 8:34:07 PM EDT
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Cool deal, glad to hear I was misinformed. I also hear there is a healthy population of Mt.lion in the area and are putting a hurting on the transplanted Desert big horn sheep. Guvment trappers have been working the area.
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Posted: 12/31/2004 8:41:40 PM EDT
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You want a freaky experience? Go visit Delamar on a weekday when for sure you'll be alone.....shit is creaking, every noise seems amplified.....I just about jumped out of my skin a few times.
Don't attempt to go there without 2 or more vehicles..I was stupid. If had had gotten 2 flat tires I would have had to walk the 15 miles back to the hwy....and it is confusing with all the paths and roads out there. GPS required next time. |
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Posted: 1/1/2005 8:29:49 AM EDT
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Delamar - BT, DT. Yep; the "sounds" CAN be disturbing.....a light breeze carries over the open desert and slight hills for miles......only living creature I ever ran across was a snake sunning itself one afternoon. Being the fool I am, I got there in a CAR! Two, maybe three times; at least 5 yrs ago.....VERY eerie place. Incredibly distant views. An interesting contrast to the lushness of Rainbow Canyon(??) about 40 min the other side of Caliente; near Elgin(?)...impressive visually (photographically). (Damn lab ruined my 35mm film I was shooting for a calendar, and was so frustrated I haven't returned since....) I remember reading about Delamar's history (maybe a marker?), a "classic" mining town's rise and fall; MANY people lived there (??!!!!)......truly difficult to believe. |
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Posted: 1/1/2005 12:11:20 PM EDT
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Wolfpack,
Next time you want to head to Delmar, let me know. I found the Cemetary there by accident. I should be able to find it again. Another cool place is Goldfield. IIRC one of the Erps is burried in that Cemetary. |
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Posted: 1/1/2005 12:47:49 PM EDT
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Will do...Goldfield is a "commercial" ghost town imho....that's the one right off of 95 right? I like ghost towns that are far off the beaten path...it still amazes me how 1.5 million people live in Clark County and 99% of them have never even ventured past the Speedway.  BTW, I hit the edit button instead of the quote button on your post but I didn't edit anything. |
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Posted: 1/1/2005 1:31:25 PM EDT
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Will do...Goldfield is a "commercial" ghost town imho....that's the one right off of 95 right? I like ghost towns that are far off the beaten path...it still amazes me how 1.5 million people live in Clark County and 99% of them have never even ventured past the Speedway. BTW, I hit the edit button instead of the quote button on your post but I didn't edit anything. I have been here for about 10 years. It is amazing what there is just in Clark county. Up around Blue Diamond nad in the Spring Mtns., is supposed to be some cool stuff. I like the area North on 93. You are right about not heading out alone. I have been in some places out there and wondered what I would do if I got stuck or broke down. |
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Posted: 1/1/2005 2:13:11 PM EDT
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The road that goes through Delamar flats comes out at Alamo canyon. No road signs and like you said, lots of other trails and not many signs. I got lucky and found my way through in the middle of the night when I was out there night calling. Only thing we saw was a few rabbits and a bunch of cows. GPS is deffinatly recomended.
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Posted: 1/1/2005 10:29:27 PM EDT
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Those are great pitures. It's great to know that NV has some history that you never really get to know about being always in Las Vegas. The pictures are telling and haunting. Not to hijack the thread, but do you use handheld GPS? I have a GPS receiver on my laptop but only loaded with streets. Would you use a topograph program on your laptop with a GPS receiver to find thse hidden roads?
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Posted: 1/1/2005 11:00:51 PM EDT
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I don't have a GPS yet, I'm getting one in a few weeks.. www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=307881 |
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Posted: 1/2/2005 8:18:20 AM EDT
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I, for one, kind of relish that the valley's population rarely roams far from home. About 15 yrs ago I "discovered" Lovell Canyon; vacant and without visitors. My last visit; several years ago, it's only road had at least 8-10 other occupants; and (seemingly) many campers there. Too discouraged to return lately...... |
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Posted: 1/2/2005 12:33:38 PM EDT
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Great post, WP. Thanks for sharing.
There were a lot of diseases and not many cures in the early days. That's probably why there are so many child grave sites. |
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Posted: 1/11/2005 9:37:48 PM EDT
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Wow - just when you think the desert is barren and deserted; nobody has possibly been here before, you run across a tumbledown building. That must be a really neat place to see.
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