The narrow, rough road with large rocks along the steep mountainside into this isolated ghost town is visible in the upper right corner of the photo. In the 1890s, Delamar, Nevada, was known as the widow maker because of the "death" dust produced in the gold milling, resulting in silicosis to the miners and residents.

The Nevada state historical marker has the wrong first name for Joseph Raphael Delamar (calling him John DeLamar); this could be the cause of a mistake in Stanely Paher's fantastic 1970 book, Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps.

Former sea captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar was also the namesake of two other ghost towns: De Lamar, Idaho, a silver and gold mining town and DeLamar, California, a copper mining town. His last name was often spelled differently.

De Lamar owned the De La Mar mine in the vanished ghost town of Mercur, Utah. De Lamar was also an early owner of the Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley, California and the Bluestone copper mine at Mason, Nevada.

De Lamar was one of Louis Comfort Tiffany's most significant stained glass patrons for Pembroke, De Lamar's Long Island, New York mansion, which is no longer standing. His New York City mansion is now the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland in New York.