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Rhyolite Train Station
Rhyolite
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Rhyolite Ghost Town, 4 miles west of Beatty
Goldwell Open Air Museum    Rhyolite

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The ghost town of Rhyolite, four miles west of Beatty on Nevada Highway 374,
was founded in 1904 and once had a population of 10,000

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The town was served by three railroads during its peak years and
the first passenger train rolled into the Rhyolite station on December 14, 1906

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The Bottle House was made from 10,000 beer bottles of which there was
no shortage in Rhyolite. The town's short-lived prosperity ended permanently
and abruptly when its mines played out in 1909.

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The last picture above shows a mined hillside near Rhyolite.

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Desert art at the Goldwell Open Air Museum at Rhyolite.
The late artist Albert Szukalski created the Last Supper sculptures
in 1984 by wrapping live models in fabric soaked in wet plaster.

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