SEVEN TROUGHS
Ghost Town — Seven Troughs, Nevada
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Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage.

A ghost town in Seven Troughs, Nevada, Seven Troughs is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic settlement and ghost-town heritage. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip. Names, dates and reports are filed together here, so the record stays honest about which is which.

Seven Troughs Canyon, in Pershing County west of Lovelock, was named for sheep watering troughs Frank Ward built there in 1894 — practical ranch furniture until 1905, when Lovelock blacksmith Joe Therien camped at the canyon and found gold-bearing quartz around the morning firepit. The rush broke in March 1906; the Reno Evening Gazette reported forty rigs leaving Lovelock in five hours, and by spring 1907 automobile stages were hauling a claimed eight hundred people a day into the district.
Four camps rose in the canyon — Seven Troughs, Vernon, Mazuma, and Farrell. Seven Troughs, sitting nearest the best ground, outlasted them as the district's center: the townsite was platted in June 1907, a post office followed that July, and by 1908 the camp of about 350 had a hotel, saloons, stores, a water system, a school, and stages to Lovelock at five dollars a seat.

TWELVE YEARS OF ORE
The district produced on the order of two million dollars in gold between 1908 and 1918, anchored by the ten-stamp Kindergarten mill and, after 1911, the Coalition cyanide plant. The 1912 flash flood that gutted neighboring Mazuma — killing residents in a wall of water down the same canyon — damaged the Coalition works and marked the beginning of the slide; wartime closures finished it. The post office closed in 1918 and the town shrank to a handful of transient miners.
What remains is a canyon of ruins and foundations on a district road — the file keeps it as ghost-town heritage, per its research notes, with no haunting claim implied and parcel access unverified.

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Gold discovery in 1906 generated a short-lived settlement. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. Media accounts document it — reported history rather than legend. The record appears in 'Nevada Ghost Towns'. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Nevada Ghost Towns — Travel Nevada
  https://travelnevada.com/ghost-town/

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