Palisade, Eureka County, Nevada

1870 - 1962

Eureka County, Nevada

Palisade: (Ten miles west of Carlin) "The settlement along the Humboldt River was named for the sheer rock walls to the east. The palisade, in turn, was named for a similar formation on the Hudson River in New York."

Palisade - Nevada Ghost Town

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USGS Topographic Map of Palisade

USGS Aerial Photograph of Palisade

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Late 1800's B &W Photographs (reduced - originals are extremely vivid) from:

Paher, Stanley W., 1970, Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps,

Howell-North Books, Berkeley, California.

Additional Nevada and Palisade photos can be seen in this excellent book.

If you are interested in Northern Nevada History this is the very first book I would

purchase.

Available from: Northeastern Nevada Museum

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I received this e-mail on January 2, 2002. It has been added here with the author's approval.

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It was a pleasure to see these photos of my birthplace, Palisade Nevada.

I grew up there in the 30's and 40's and also attended grade school there.

I have many wonderful memories of Palisade. The photograph that you show
that has the subtitle of looking from this house toward the Eureka and
Palisade Roadbed is actually what remains of the one room School that sat on
the hillside there. This was the school that I attended. I remember
vividly the Eureka and Palisade Narrow Gauge Railroad and the trains that
would be headed to Eureka just at the bottom of the hill where our
schoolhouse stood. I recall one of the last trains as it was headed for
Eureka in 1938 or 1939. And the stacks of rails that were brought back to
Palisade from this railroad's line that were sold to Japan as scrap Iron.

We lived in a house that belonged to the Southern Pacific that was situated
where one can still see two or three large cottonwood trees in the
photograph where you show a train headed west before entering the tunnel at
the west end of town. I had the occasion to recently visit the town last
year with my brother who lives in Sparks. We had lunch where our house used
to be at the cottonwood location. In addition we were right next to the
stockyards and I vividly recall the cattle drives from Pine Valley each year
when all the ranchers of Pine Valley would herd their stock to Palisade for
shipment on cattle cars of the Southern Pacific. And also the sheep drives
to the town and subsequent shipment to California on the train for winter
feeding.

What wonderful memories!!!!!!! I'm so glad that you have made a web site of
this historical Nevada Location.

With best regards,

Jess Lopez Arambula

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^ Monuments

^ Looking North - Area 1 (left of center RR Tracks along base of hill): Business district

Area 2 (Green Flats): Buildings, old narrow gage RR tracks, and shops

Area 3 (left center edge of photo - road going up hill): Cemetery

Area 4 (just left of photo): Active residents of town.

Area 1

The following e-mail was received from J. Lopez Arambula on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:38 AM. It tells about the following photograph.

"photo (palisade47.jpg) are what remain of the steps to the Courthouse and Jail at Palisade. The constable at the time I lived there was Leo Lucy.

His son Harold Lucy was a school friend of mine.

Jess"

Ruins of the Palisade School (below)

Standing at above schoolhouse and looking south at old curving narrow gage RR grade (below).

Area 2

The following e-mail was received from J. Lopez Arambula on Tuesday, June 11, 2002 11:38 AM. It tells about the abandoned bridge in the following two photographs.

"The photo of the what looks like piles of rocks and railroad ties across the humbolt river (photo 010624 palisade8.jpg) are the remains of the bridge across the humbolt from the southern pacific depot to the western pacific depot and western pacific railroad workers houses. These were the piers of the bridge. They were constructed of railroad ties with large rocks in the center of a box of railroad ties. I crossed this bridge many times to catch the train from Palisade to Elko. We used to have to flag the passenger trains down with a red flag standing out in the middle of the track, the engineer would then acknowledge us by two toots "toot toot" on his steam whistle. It would then stop and pick us up. My brother and I would on occasion take this train to Elko to see a movie at the Ranier theater. We would stay at the Overland Hotel across the street from the Commercial Hotel. The owners were Basque who knew my parents. We were only in the fourth or fifth grade at the time!!! The owners would rent us a room and we would stay there for the night. It was during the war, and we would also go around the corner and purchase funny books at a drugstore and read them before the movie and after. The next day we would cross the street to the SP Depot and take the train back to Palisade."

Take care,

Jess"