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I am Rebecca Maloney, temporary Webmistress and Coordinator for White Pine County, NVGenWeb. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you would like to be the county coordinator or have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make.
White Pine County embraces 8,877 square miles in eastern Nevada, in
the White Pine Range adjacent to the Utah border. The state legislature
established the county in 1869 as a result of the mining boom at
Hamilton, its first county seat. The boom ended after less than three
years, but the community continued to serve as the center of government
until the courthouse burned. Ely became the county seat in 1887.
The county did not prosper until the early twentieth century, when
copper ore in the Robinson district (in which Ely is located) was
developed. Mark Requa, son of a prominent Virginia City mine owner, was
a primary early promoter of the region. The Guggenheim interests, with
substantial holdings in Utah, gained control of much of the county's
mining operation. Kennecott Copper Co. became a major producer.
For a half-century, White Pine was the most productive mining and
smelting region in the state, with its pits at Ruth and Kimberley, and
the large smelter at McGill. More than $1.0 billion in ore was mined
and smelted between 1902 and 1981, when the operation closed.
White Pine County is served by three national highways, U.S. 6, 50, and
93. When the mines and smelter were active, the Northern Nevada
Railroad connected Ely, McGill, and Ruth with the Southern Pacific
Railroad to the north.
The high desert mountains, foothills, and
valleys of the county offer many streams and habitats for wildlife and
livestock. For more than a century, the rangelands have been coveted
for their grazing possibilities for cattle and sheep. The highlands
include the Snake Range, the Schell Creek Range, and the Diamond
Mountains. There are seven peaks that rise above 10,000 feet in
elevation. Great Basin National Park and Mt. Moriah Wilderness area lie
entirely within White Pine County.
According to the 2000 census,
White Pine County had a population of 9,264. In 2004, the Nevada State
Demographer estimated a population of 8,966.
I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of YOUR COUNTY roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in North Carolina and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
White Pine Museum
Joseph Leavitt
Beatrice Rhodes Cabin
If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:
Coordinator : AVAILABLE
State Coordinator: Rebecca Maloney
Asst State Coordinator: Norma Hass
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Nevada and do not have access to additional records.
