Rhyolite, Nevada
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County in the U.S. state of Nevada. It was created by and passed with a gold deposits and was named after influencing, the landscape rhyolite. Rhyolite is located northwest of Las Vegas on the way to Death Valley near Beatty, about 3 km north of the Nevada State Route 374
History
Rhyolite was born after 1904 in the so-called " Bullfrog Mining District " after gold was discovered. Between 1905 and 1910 lived in Rhyolite over 10,000 inhabitants, it was making it the third largest city in Nevada. His equipment included three railway lines, a telegraph station, a power plant, three newspapers, 50 gold mines, an opera, a symphony, three hospitals, a public swimming pool, 19 hotels, 18 drug stores and 53 saloons. By 1914 the gold deposits were exploited, the decline of the city was as fast as their rise. In 1919 he graduated as the last post office of Rhyolite, and the last inhabitants, the postal workers, left the city.
Today Rhyolite is a listed building and is an open air museum, which is obtained from the Rhyolite Preservation Society. The town consisted mainly of wooden houses, of which today no longer exists. Only a few stone buildings such as banks, hotels, the prison and the station building of the former Las Vegas and Tonopah Railroad are still standing.
Among the architectural sights Rhyolites still one the Bottle House. It was built in 1906 from around 50,000 bottles mortared together as a home - most of them discarded Busch Beer bottles from neighboring saloon.
End of the 1980s, the Belgian- Polish artist Albert Szukalski lived for a time in Rhyolite and during which created some ghost statues made of hardened acrylic. His characters are now the only permanent " residents " of the ghost town. Rhyolite is accessible all year round, a volunteer leader of Rhyolite Preservation Society is always on site. The visit is free, donations are appreciated.
The city was (1998) and The Island (2005) used as the setting for scenes in the movies Cherry 2000, 1987, Six-String Samurai.