Message posted by td Barnes on February 04, 2012 at 8:11:38 PST:
Vince, there was no settlement at Groom and as far as I know, it was never a key area during the Mormon movement. This was most likely because of the lack of water We have photos taken in 1917 showing the Groom mine to be quite active. Over in the NTS there are old Indian camps and a stagecoach way station that still has shot glasses on the bar and coats hanging on the wall. All of these are being preserved. The Mercury camp, however was a settlement. The old miner’s town of Mercury, Nevada obtained its name from the many mines located in the area where miners extracted the dangerous chemical from the desert hills. Situated in Nye County, years ago the local miners gathered in the town to drink and take an occasional bath. The town grew during World War II and it became the main entrance to the Atomic Testing Grounds in the fifties. The Army camped at Desert Rock just outside the town during the early atmospheric atomic tests and referred to the town as “Base Camp Mercury”.
In Reply to: Groom...pre Watertown posted by Vince on February 03, 2012 at 21:15:13 PST:
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