Ward, Nevada

Nearest town: Ely, Nevada 20 miles.
Location: Southeast of Ely on U.S. Highways 6,50 & 93 to historic marker. Then west on well-maintained gravel road to remains of ghost town and cemetery.

The ghost town of Ward lies in the foothills of the Egan mountain range southeast of Ely. Booming from 1876 until 1882, with a peak population of 1,500 people, Ward was a lawless mining camp. Early killings occurred and justice was meted out by the vigilante committee and the hanging rope.

A million dollars worth of silver was taken from a single chamber of the Ward Mine. Yet an abandoned house was used for the first school and no movement was ever started to build a church.

The town was abandoned by the late 1880s, but new discoveries and better mining methods prompted a resurgence of activity in 1906 and again in the 1960s.

Source: Ward Historic Marker.