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Buckskin National Mine Site, East slope of Buckskin Mountain, Paradise Valley, Humboldt County, NV
Summary
Significance: The Buckskin National Mine is strongly associated with the National Mining District as its most productive mine in the 1920s and 1930s. It is associated with Willliam Bell, a two-term Nevada State Senator from Humboldt County and a prominent local figure. Buckskin National Mine is a source of archaeological information needed to answer scientific and scholarly research questions about the National Mining District community, miner's living conditions and lifestyles, women on the mining frontier, consumerism, and mining technology.
Survey number: HAER NV-17
Building/structure dates: 1923-1931 Initial Construction
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Date
1969 - 1980
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Bell, William J
Bell, Forest
University of Nevada, Department of Anthropology, contractor
Goddard, Richard, project manager
Pettit, Stephen, historian
Hardesty, Donald L, historian
Location
Paradise Valley, 41.49351, -117.53457
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html
