Mineral County
Location: Western Mineral County, Walker Lake
Directions: Access from US 95, 10 miles north of Hawthorne.
N 38° 41.422 W 118° 46.245
Location: 3
Visibility: 2
Accessibility: 3
Marker type: Stone
Date Conquered: 6/24/07
Quick Description: A unique marker honoring both the history of Walker Lake and the unique past of Mineral County.
Signed: Yes -- Signed on both lanes of US 95.
Full Description:
Exact description as reads ...
Nevada's earliest maps show Walker Lake. Jedediah Smith, first American into Nevada, passed here in 1829 during his remarkable trip across the state. Peter Skene Ogden was here in 1828, then Fremont in 1846 with his guide, Joseph Walker for whom the lake is named.
Until it's creation in 1911, Mineral County was apart of Esmeralda. The first county seat was at Aurora, but it was moved to Hawthorne in 1868, the year after the Carson and Colorado RR was built. The county had many well-known mining towns -- Aurora, Belleville, Candelaria, Rawhide and others.
The mystical waters of Walker Lake.
