History · Jarbidge

Jarbidge’s history is mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 3 old photos of Jarbidge. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

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What stands out about Jarbidge’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenOnly 3 old photos are in the public archives. The rest are in attics and albums.

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Decades since 1900 with photos

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1 of 10 decades. The empty ones are waiting for someone’s album.

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The story

How Jarbidge came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Jarbidge.

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Jarbidge is a name derived from the Shoshone language meaning "devil". Natives believed the nearby hills were haunted.

Gold was discovered near Jarbidge in 1909, making it the site of one of the last gold rushes of the American frontier, and incidentally was the site of the last stagecoach robbery in 1916.

Its population swelled to near 2,000 in 1911; however, it began a slow decline thereafter, when the mining facilities were largely cannibalized for the war effort during World War I. Mining operations ceased completely in 1932. However, in 2013 permits for the removal of the gold were re-issued and the mine is reopening.

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By decade

Jarbidge, decade by decade

2 decades in the archive, from the 1850s to the 1900s. Scroll each row; tap a photo for its story.

1850s2 items

1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Nevada - Elko County - ED 4-1, ED 4-2, ED 4-3A, ED 4-3B, ED 4-4

18501940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Nevad…

1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Nevada - Elko County - ED 4-3A, ED 4-3B

18501940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Nevad…

1900s1 item

c. 1909Jarbidge tent resaurant

1910s–1990snothing yet

Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Today3 recent

2012Jarbidge Historic Marker

2012Jarbidge Gift Shop

2007Jarbidge Nevada

Then & now

Stand where they stood

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Retake this view1940 Census Enumeration District Descriptions - Nevada - Elko County - ED 4-1, ED 4-2, ED 4-3A, ED 4-3B, ED 4-4, 1850

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