Belleville Cemetery - Mineral County, NV - Worldwide Cemeteries on Waymarking.com

An official Nevada state historical marker brought me to this former mining town of Belleville. I noticed on the topography map app that there was a nearby cemetery so I drove up the dirt hillside to check it out. A sign located at the cemetery reads:

A Plea
From Each of Us of the
Silent Majority
You Are, So Once was I.
A Am, You Soon will Be.

When These Words You See,
Remember Me Remember Me.

Amen.

It's apparent some volunteers have tried to maintain the few graves that exist here. In addition to one lone concrete headstone, I noticed a number of other rock pilings making up some graves and a plot bordered with rocks. This cemetery is located about 1/2 mile up a hillside from the highway and historical marker. The historical marker reads:

Founded in 1874 by Alsop J. Holmes, Belleville flourished by milling ore from Holmes’ Northern Belle Mine at Candelaria. The mill, located just east of here, made its first bullion-bar shipment (worth $9,200) in April 1875.

Belleville was also the terminus and work camp of the Carson and Colorado Railroad that reached the town in December 1881. At that time Belleville’s population peaked at about five hundred and included an assay office, an express office, a telegraph station, a livery stable, a schoolhouse, two hotels, several restaurants and blacksmith shops, and seven saloons.

By the late 1880s pipes delivered water to Candelaria and allowed local mills to begin operation, reducing the need for shipping costs. Belleville could not survive the competition and was deserted by 1892.

City, Town, or Parish / State / Country: Belleville Approximate number of graves: 12 Cemetery Status: Inactive Maintained Cemetery Website: Not listed

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