Written by AnaMH on November 14, 2000
- L.D. Porter brought the stock and supplies for his new store in Rhyolite. He led an 18-mule team through Death Valley in March-April 1905. Prior to their arrival, lots of land were going for...
Written by AnaMH on November 14, 2000
- The building in the best condition in the ghost town is the Las Vegas Tonopah Railroad Depot. This concrete building was completed in June of 1908. Rhyolite had train service since December 1906. The train...
Written by AnaMH on November 14, 2000
- Mr. Cook came to Rhyolite with dreams of building another Cook’s Bank, like the one he had in Goldfield, NV. The first bank he built in Rhyolite on Golden Street became very small almost as...
Written by AnaMH on November 14, 2000
- On August 9, 1904, two prospectors, Frank “Shorty” Harris and Ernest L. Cross discovered gold in a nearby hill. They called the find “Bullfrog Gold Mine”. There were so exciting samples coming out of the...
Written by AnaMH on November 14, 2000
- When the jail was built it was one of the best in the state of Nevada. Rhyolite did not have much crime since it was established but upper and middle class people but it did...
Written by AnaMH on November 14, 2000
- There were three bottle houses in Rhyolite. The surviving one was the largest of the three. It is 85% primary made of Budweiser bottles.
Most of the bottles used were Adulphous Busch, which is now...
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