It soon became the transportation hub for Mineral Hill, Hamilton Eureka and other eastern Nevada mining camps.

Houses and commercial stores were built and by the end of the 1870s, the town had multiple hotels, saloons, other businesses and residences.

In 1908, a third railroad began running thru town when the Western Pacific built its line to transport people and goods to northern Nevada.

[4] In 1932, according to legend, Palisade may have been the site of a possible assassination attempt on the life of President Herbert Hoover.

Shortly before Hoover's train was to pass through the town, one railroad inspector said he encountered a vagrant by a trestle with 22 sticks of dynamite.

Sexton, who had not visited Palisade for some 35 years, said he sold the town to raise college tuition money for his daughter.