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Nevada's elegant ghost: Rhyolite.(Brief Article)
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February 1, 2000|
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Visit a forgotten boomtown just north of Las Vegas
During the town's heyday, the view from the grand Las Vegas-Tonopah Railroad Depot in Rhyolite, Nevada, swept across a mining town of 10,000. "Up there at the top of the town, you could catch a breeze, and you got a view of the entire valley below," says Bureau of Land Management archaeologist Patricia McCoy.
Costing $130,000 to build, the elegant mission-style building made a fitting partner for the opera house, the stock exchange, and the numerous hotels that had blossomed since Rhyolite's 1904 gold ...
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