Beatty, Nevada

 place with historical importance, unincorporated area / community, draw only border

The historical community of Beatty was found in 1900 as the railroad service center for the Bullfrog Mining District. It was once served by 3 railroads that ran through to the booming metropolis of nearby Rhyolite, then a town of 10,000. Today, Rhyolite is a ghost town, and Beatty is a casual highway stopping point for travelers to Death Valley. Some of old Beatty can still be seen. The Exchange Club still does business in the same building that George Greenwood built in 1906.

Rhyolite is worth the short drive west of town. The wind has knocked down many of the buildings on the old mining town's main street, and only a few walls remain. The mission-style railroad station still stands, as does a bottle house that was constructed with 50,000 liquor and beer bottles by a miner, Tom Kelly. Some of the features of the old town are to be restored by the Friends of Rhyolite, a nonprofit society recently formed. The bottle house is high on their list of priorities.

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Three railroads once ran through the area:

1. Bullfrog-Goldfield ran from the north of Beatty to Bonnie Claire to Goldfield, also serving Rhyolite. The B-G reached Rhyolite in 1907.
2. Tonopah & Tidewater ran from Beatty to Ludlow, with spur lines to the Lila C and Noonday mines. It ran on the outskirts of Rhyolite, reaching Gold Center in 1908.
3. Las Vegas & Tonopah went right through Rhyolite on its way from Las Vegas to Tonopah. The LV&T was the first to reach Rhyolite in 1906.