Vanderbilt is a
ghost town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
in
Eureka County, in the western state of
Nevada
Nevada ( ; ) is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive, th ...
, in the United States.
History
In 1870, Vanderbilt had 150 inhabitants, two
boarding house
A boarding house is a house (frequently a family home) in which lodging, lodgers renting, rent one or more rooms on a nightly basis and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months, or years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and ...
s and two
saloons, although 300 miners were employed in the mining district in those times.
In August 1871, the Post Office opened.
When Eureka had begun to boom, many people of Vanderbilt move there.
In 1872 a disaster has occurred in Vanderbilt: a fire destroyed the mill.
In 1880, only 25 people lived in Vanderbilt, in 1885 the post office was closed.
[ The Post Office was reopened as Geddes in March 1882 though it closed in June 1885. The few active mines had closed by 1887.
Now, the only vestiges of the town are mill ruins. Because the road to Vanderbilt is very treacherous, is very dangerous to reach the place.]
References
{{Eureka County, Nevada
Ghost towns in Nevada
Ghost towns in Eureka County, Nevada