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![]() The first Europeans to have came through the Paradise Valley aka (Half Moon Valley according to the Native Americans) area were trappers who came to the region to hunt and gather furs. The first daring trapper was a man by the name of Peter Skene Ogden who laid eyes on this valley in 1828 who worked for the Hudson Bay Company. It must had been very dangerous for a trapper to traverse the mountains of Nevada being the elements were so harsh, geology was so rugged and then you had the constant threat of Indians who lived along the Humboldt River where today the semi ghost town of Paradise Valley can be found. Humboldt County which is Nevada's oldest of counties gets it name from a German Naturalist and explorer Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander Freiherr Von Humboldt. Quite the name I know but at the time this region of Nevada had begun to be settled the Northern Central part of this Nevada county served as a major route for emigrants heading west during the 1800's readying themselves for the trip over the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains. ![]() As a matter in fact the fort had two adobe officer's quarters, two sod quartermasters storage buildings, hospital, guardhouse, stables and laundress quarters. When 1971 rolled around six men were left to guard the entire fort with 2nd Lieutenant Otto L. Hein of the 1st US Cavalry making the proper preparations to close the camp. Since then it has always served as a private ranch who today utilizes the forts buildings. The officers quarters today are the main house and the buildings are hard to see because they are down a long gated dirt road which belongs to ranchers. I wanted to get permission to walk around but I did not want to open someone's private gated road just to do it thus I got as close as a half of mile away then did some proper archival research to bring you guys photos taken from the later 1960's and the late 1970's. As far as I am concerned the fort in 1866 may have been one of the only few permanent structures found in Paradise Valley at the time. Its hard to know what still stands or has been kept up through the years. It certainly looks allot different today then it did just a few decades ago and one day may be entirely gone because adobe has a tendency over the years to deteriorate. By 1869 Indian attacks did cease so the farmers of Paradise Valley were able to farm without any fear. It was more of a farming community then it was a mining camp really. As a matter in fact this valley is lush, green, peaceful, historic and was a productive farming town. The food grown here could be shipped off to other local mining towns such as Jumbo, National, Star City, Humboldt City, Daveytown, Buckskin and quite a few others. Mining came to the Santa Rosa Range in or around 1868 with the discovery of rich silver and gold bearing veins above Paradise Valley. The closes mining districts were called the Paradise Valley and Mount Rose Districts with at least 70,000 in gold and silver being mined as well as exhausted by 1890. The mining towns that were in the Santa Rose range were quite large and many of the miners would stop in the valley before making the long trek into this range. Some of them probably stayed at John C. Kempler's first hotel built here in 1866 for those who were daring enough to travel here. ![]() Paradise Valley turned into a small town as it had hotels, stores, saloons, Methodist and Catholic Church. It also had hitching posts, a wooden boardwalk used as sidewalks and wide dirt streets. The river came right through downtown it was rather scenic and real grass grew here because the valley was as far away from desert as you could get. As a matter in fact by 1879 the town also had its own post office and a newspaper called "The Reporter" along with many other businesses. Despite all the great features Paradise Valley offered it only had around this time a population of about 100 folks. As a matter in fact originally the town was called Scottsdale named after Fort Winfield Scott then when downtown grew it was called Paradise City and the final name it was given was Paradise Valley named after the lush valley this town resides in. Some folks may have just came up to the valley alone for its hot springs. I never found them but I have heard about them reading about the towns history. At the mouth into the valley their was also a small town used to serve travelers on the Winnemucca-Paradise Valley Road near the end of the later 1800's. Willowpoint had a saloon, livery stable and even a hotel. Willowpoint much like Paradise City more or less was a road side attraction or rather a means for travelers to get a room, hot meal and some supplies before they moved on to other larger towns in the region or up to some of these mining camps higher up in the mountains which surround this lush valley. Meanwhile it was the ranchers along with their families who resided here permanently planting crops and raising livestock. During the 1870's lode and placer deposits of gold were discovered along the western flank of the Santa Rosa Mountains in Willow and Rebel Creek. The gold was so abundant that you could pan the gravel and pull up gold so some ranchers may have also tried a hand in mining. The placer deposits were discovered in Pole and Canyon Creeks to the north as well. ![]() Around the turn of the century you had livery stables, stores and The Paradise Hotel which was one of three hotels near downtown. Their was also Buckingham's store which was a novelty shop, two bustling saloons downtown and a two story grange hall which boasted a general store and harness shop. Town dances and events were held on the second story of the hall it also boasted a blacksmith shop in a separate area. The grange hall had a saloon built next to the store and dance hall so in a sense it was like a small strip mall. The Auditorium Hotel was a gorgeous hotel with wrap around porches it actually contained four stories where parties and dances were also held at. Traveling salesmen via stagecoach would often boast about The Auditorium stating that the hotel was just as fine as any hotel up in Winnemucca which is about 60 miles to the south. Sadly fire destroyed The Auditorium Hotel in the mid 1930's and more then likely many other buildings located in Paradise Valley. Today most of Paradise City is long gone with the exception of a few abandoned saloons, store fronts, tunnels, out houses, out buildings and historical ranches. It certainly was a bustling little town back in the 1800's today your lucky if you even see a car pass by. One of the most amazing sites to see downtown is the giant cottonwood trees which grow on the city streets some easily over 150 years of age which were growing around the time the first pioneers settled here. ![]() The cemetery which resides not to far from downtown's beautiful relics sits in a open sandy area the cattle come right up to the fence. Their is not many trees growing here but it has two gates and is a few hundred feet ![]() In the 1890's mining in Nevada had fell most towns were abandoned and mines exhausted. Then when 1900 came around like when the strike in Tonopah Nevada occurred many prospectors flooded the area. Some stuck to around in certain new boom towns others headed up north to various mountains and desert valleys hoping to make a strike of their own. An example of this occurred in 1906 when two miners from Winnemucca stumbled upon an outcrop of gold-bearing ore on the NE slope of Buckskin Mountain which overshadows Paradise Valley. A short distance of four miles away another gold boom was discovered which lasted ten years which led to the town of National Nevada rising to the occasional. The National Lode brought in about 7 million dollars in gold ore. The mines around National were some of the wealthiest gold booms in the state of Nevada. Many of these miners relied on Paradise Valley for supplies but also beef, vegetables and other foods. It was not uncommon to see prospectors stay at the hotel up in Paradise City before making the trek up into the Santa Rosa Mountains. This is also home to Claude Dallas who was a renegade buckaroo who was running illegal trap lines not far from Paradise Valley and southern Idaho. When the game wardens attempted to check his trap lines they discovered he was illegally hunting game. This led to a gunfight which Dallas ended up killing the two game wardens. Of course Dallas went to jail and was eventually released. I read that he still is somewhere up in Northern Nevada laying low probably not in Paradise Valley but many locals are very opinionated about the incident while some are in support others oppose his actions. Their is a song written about the event by Ian Tyson's piece called Claude Dallas. Allot of the folks who live up here are very conservative and they do like their privacy so when you visit Paradise City its important to respect peoples properties just as an FYI for those who might just want to come up here to photograph the valley. Another song written about the valley is a song called "This Place Is Paradise"and it really is. No place compares to Paradise Valley when you visit as many valleys and ghost towns as I have over the years. This valley has made an impact on me knowing that its a world away from a world often not getting as much recognition as it should because so very few know about it. However, in the 1980's a team from the Smithsonian Institution came to Paradise Valley to do investigations of the lore and folkways of American Rural Communities. The investigation resulted in an exhibit which displayed over two hundred artifacts and reconstructions of various items which ranged from clothing, ranch tools, cooking utensils and recreational materials all from the Paradise Valley area. The exhibit could be seen in Washington D.C.'s Museum of History and Technology. When the exhibit was over with all the relics were then shipped to Winnemucca which went on display there. One of the buildings built in the 1860's received recognition and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today if you explore Paradise Valley thoroughly your going to see many historic relics of the past such as wagons, tools, furniture etc. Their is so much to be seen here and even Fort Scott still stands although on private property it is iconic to Nevada's early history. While Paradise Valley had gotten some recognition back in the 1980's we hope with this addition our web site we can put it on the map so other ghost town enthusiast, nature lovers, historians and families can enjoy it for years to come because honestly Paradise Valley is a diamond in the ruff! Copyright By Lord Rick PGS Founder Author, News Editor, Talk Show Host, Producer, Urban Explorer and Paranormal Investigator |
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