In a Northern Nevada boomtown, under several layers of ... It filled in gaps in the Black history of the mining town, an integral setting in the Silver State’s founding. Joe Curtis, a Virginia ...

Most in-tact ghost towns are concentrated in central and northern parts of Nevada where mining was more abundant in the late 1800s and early 1900s, said Megg Mueller, who has co-authored a book on ...

Virginia City isn’t your average ghost town. This Nevada boomtown turned tourist spot still has wooden sidewalks and saloon doors, but it’s also got real miners’ descendants running shops and the same ...

WorldAtlas named Ely as Nevada's most underrated town. The rural community in northeastern Nevada began as a copper mining town but has also been a major player in other parts of the Silver State ...

At the end of town, a shuttered train depot bakes beneath the desert sun. These fragmented structures are all that’s left of Rhyolite, once one of Nevada’s most prosperous mining towns.

Nevada City, a ghost town turned lively open-air museum, truly lives up to the Old West image. In particular, Nevada City Old Town Museum and Music Hall is a local park and life-size time capsule ...

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