Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns. Most are vestiges of the region’s mining boom-and-bust era, which began with the discovery of gold near present-day Dayton in 1849 and continued into ...

Driven out of Nevada Most ghost towns in Nevada — like Rhyolite, Belmont and Delamar — began as boomtowns, Green said. White settlers sought work mining in Nevada’s mountains and hills ...

Photographer Francesca Di Stefano has taken amazing photos of the ghost towns and valleys in Nevada. The Silver State is littered with abandoned mining towns and camps that were thriving during ...

“Without the water this will become yet another Nevada ghost town, which we cannot afford. We can’t allow that to happen,” he ...

The desert landscape of Nevada is home to dozens of charming ... Austin is often considered a living ghost town, as the once booming mining hub is far from its glory days — yet much of its ...

From trading posts to mining towns, Nevada's oldest towns emerged during ... known for its paranormal activity and has drawn many ghost hunters to the Yellow Jacket site. Ghosts Rosie and William ...

make a pit stop in Nevada City, a ghost town situated roughly 90 miles northwest of Yellowstone National Park. The restored former gold mining town boasts many original log structures along with a ...

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 ...