Seven Troughs
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.
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Is Seven Troughs haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
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.
Documented history
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.
Media reportedTravel Nevada
Sources on file
- 01Nevada Ghost TownsTravel Nevada · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Pass 1 discovery. Inclusion is for ghost-town heritage; no haunting claim is implied. Parcel access and coordinates remain unverified.