Boom-town rebirth.Picture this. An early western town with saloons, hotels, restaurants, banks, billiard bil·liard adj. Of, relating to, or used in billiards. n. See carom. Adj. 1. billiard - of or relating to billiards; "a billiard ball"; "a billiard cue"; "a billiard table" halls, stores, an ice-cream parlor ice-cream parlor n. An establishment where ice cream is served. , lodges for Oddfellows and Masons, a school, lumbermill, breweries, two rival newspapers, and a Chinese community on the outskirts of town. Got the picture? Now add in four silver mills. That's the description of Shermantown, site of one of the richest deposits of silver ore in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. . One of many silver boom towns in Nevada, Shermantown sprang up in 1868 and was abandoned only three years later. In one of the shortest-lived but most intensive mining booms in U.S. history, nearly half the population of Nevada lived within a five-mile radius of what is now part of the Humboldt National Forest. To ensure that this segment of history was not lost, excavation and documentation through archival studies were needed. Good press coverage sparked public interest. Students, private citizens, Forest Service employees, and the anthropology department of the Reno branch of the University of Nevada University of Nevada could refer to either of the universities in the Nevada System of Higher Education:
Plans are to develop the ruins into an interpretive in·ter·pre·tive also in·ter·pre·ta·tive adj. Relating to or marked by interpretation; explanatory. in·ter  pre·tive·ly adv. area for the
public, with signs, brochures, sightseeing roads, and trails for
mountain bikes.
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