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Enjoy my travels as I adventure through some of the West's abandoned, ghost & mining towns.

05/10/2024

05/09/2024

Gold Center was established in December 1904 near the Amargosa River, allowing sufficient water for drinking. Water pipelines were built from Gold Center to Rhyolite and later to Carrara.

Gold Center's biggest boom came with construction of the Las Vegas & Tonopah Railroad in June 1906. Gold Center peaked in 1907, with the three railroads, post office, hotel, bank, stores and saloons, and newspaper - the Gold Center News. Most impressive, however, was the Gold Center Ice & Brewing Company's large stone brewery and ice house.

After Rhyolite began its decline late in 1908, Gold Center followed. Businesses closed, including the brewery and ice house.

11/13/2023

Shaffer’s pond. I’ve just recently learned about this and had to go back and find it. The water was quite green, so I gently moved the water and the goldfish came to the surface. I only saw about 5 of them.

A man named Shaffer found water seeping from cliff walls and built a basin made of indigenous rock and concrete. He set it where the springs could drain into it.

Locals keep gold fish, snails and plants in it to help keep the water fresh and algae free. Many local residents call it the Gold Fish Bowl.

08/02/2023

Located in the Black mountains is the Elephant Tooth rock (the white rock to the left).

08/01/2023

Oatman jail built 1936.

07/30/2023

Goldfield International Car Forest.

07/30/2023

Petroglyphs.

07/29/2023

Chloride jail held 2 prisoners.

07/26/2023

Big Nose Kate.

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