Jarbidge Community Hall

When fifteen hundred people filled Jarbidge Canyon, they built themselves a hall to dance in. Raised around 1910 at the height of the gold boom, this pioneer-style building had a "floating" maple floor—springy boards laid to give under dancing feet—the kind of refinement that signaled a camp meant to stay. It hosted the dances, meetings, and gatherings that knit a remote mining town together. The boom faded and most of Jarbidge with it, but the hall endured. Lovingly restored, it now houses the town's archives and historical collections, still standing in the canyon where the music once played.

What the plaque says

Gold discoveries by Dave Bourne in 1909 created the town of Jarbidge. With 1,500 population in Jarbidge Canyon by 1910, citizens built this pioneer-type community hail with a “floating” maple floor. Support from the Nevada Commission for Cultural Affairs and the community funded the restoration of the building.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Jarbidge — steps away
  The end of the road, twice over — Nevada's most isolated town, deep in a canyon on the Idaho line, where the West's last gold rush and its last stagecoach robbery both played out.

More markers nearby

• Jarbidge — 0.3 mi