Nevada City is a
ghost town in
Churchill County, Nevada,
United States, located just east of
Fallon, Nevada near the current intersection of
State Route 118 and
U.S. Highway 50. It was founded in 1916 as a
socialist community known as the Nevada Cooperative Colony, but due to misleading advertising, mismanagement, and possibly dubious financial dealings by the Nevada Colony Corporation's directors, who were connected with the similar
Llano del Rio
Llano del Rio was a Commune (intentional community), commune (or "colony") located in what is now Llano, California, east of Palmdale, California, Palmdale in the Antelope Valley, Los Angeles County, California, Los Angeles County. The colony was ...
colony near
Los Angeles, the project folded in 1919. Another contributing factor to its demise was the unpopularity of its anti-war position during
World War I, which led to bloodshed when Churchill County Sheriff Mark Wildes attempted to arrest colonist Paul Walters as a draft evader. By 1919 most of the families had moved away and the colony fell into receivership.
References
Ghost towns in Churchill County, Nevada
Ghost towns in Nevada
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