April 2020
APRIL 23 – MODENA / HEBRON / STATELINE GHOST TOWNS
Modena is the second most important railroad town located in the far western outskirts of Iron County. Hebron was established in 1868 and by 1905 is was a deserted town. Gold and silver were discovered at Stateline Canyon in 1894 and soon a town sprung up. But as with most mining towns the ore started to play out around 1910 and by 1918 there were only 18 people remaining. We will depart at 9:00 am for this field trip.
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MAY 21 – DELMAR GHOST TOWN / OAK SPRINGS FOSSIL BEDS, NEVADA
In the early 1890’s Joseph Rafael De La Mar began development of a rich mining camp in the Delmar hills. The town boomed from 1895 into the twentieth century, finally becoming a ghost town at the beginning of Works War II. The Oak Springs Trilobite Area is laden with fossil remains of six types of trilobites in the shale deposits near Oak Springs Summit. HIGH CLEARANCE VEHICLES ARE RECOMMENDED FOR THIS TRIP WHICH WILL DEPART AT 8:00 AM FROM THE…
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