Please remember to exercise caution when exploring Nevada's Ghost Towns & Mining Camps. Open shafts, drifts going into mountainsides, and old buildings, are all DANGEROUS. Be aware of your surroundings, and let someone know where you are, especially if your plans change.

Frisbie

DIRECTIONS: From Cortez, backtrack 1 mile to main road. Exit right and follow for 3.5 miles. Exit right again and follow for 2 miles to Frisbie.

"Frisbie was a small mining camp active during the 1880s. Initial discoveries were made by miners from nearby Cortez during spring 1883. A camp of 25 formed, and on July 16 a post office, with Charles Harvey as postmaster, opened. Frisbie became the principal mining camp of the Campbell (Bullion) Mining District. Jim Campbell, founder of the district, owned the Limestone Mine in Frisbie. The Twis brothers owned two other good producers, the Osceola and the Bismark mines. Other mines in the district included the Silverside, Lady of the Lake, and Lady Francis mines. While the post office closed on October 29, 1885, the district continued to be active, albeit at a much slower pace. Charles Engstrom, a prospector from Austin, shipped silver ore to Austin's mills in August 1891, producing more than 150 ounces of silver. A school was built in 1891 to serve the families of the miners in Frisbie and Cortez for the next two years. The camp faded during the early 1890s when ore values from the mines dropped, and nearby Cortez began to boom again. By the turn of the century the district was abandoned, and no activity has taken place there since. All that remains of Frisbie is a couple of stone ruins."

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