Located along Interstate 80 in north central Nevada, one of these places is Argenta, Nevada. This is what I learned.<\/p>\n<\/div> Argenta is a ghost down in central Nevada. In the mid 1860’s prospectors discovered silver in the area. The town was planning to develop as a shipping center for the nearby mines and in Austin to the south. However, the town of Battle Mountain had stronger ties to the silver industry and by 1871 the entire town moved to Battle Mountain making Argenta effectively a mining ghost town.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Argenta remained vacant until 1930 when barite was discovered nearby. This mine in Argenta Mountain was operated by the Baker Hughes Company until it closed in 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n This is one of the Baker Hughes operations alongside a railroad siding and Interstate 80<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n<\/div> Well, that’s the short story about Argenta, NV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yet curiosity remains high and I hope to report on other interesting names of places that are part of my hobby.<\/p>\n\n\n\n More of my places that you may never have heard of are here<\/p>\n\n\n\n Aragonite, Utah<\/a> On our amazing Interstate Highway system I may see an exit to a place that I don’t recognize. Aragonite is one such place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[171,2,92],"tags":[207,211,70,209,213,471,212,208],"class_list":["post-1662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informational","category-personal","category-travel","tag-argenta","tag-barite","tag-driving","tag-ghosttown","tag-hobby","tag-interstate","tag-mining","tag-nevada"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12113,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/12113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/arnielee.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/P1000316-1024x768.jpg\")
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Beowawe, Nevada
<\/a>Dunphy, Nevada<\/a>
Jackpot, Nevada<\/a>
Mercury, Nevada<\/a>
Rhyolite, Nevada<\/a>
Vedauwoo, Wyoming<\/a>
<\/a>Wamsutter, Wyoming<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"