Historic sites in Nevada

Nevada's Historic Treasures

Nevada’s landscape preserves a diverse timeline, from the 225-million-year-old Triassic fossils at the Ichthyosaur Shelter to the 19th-century boomtown ruins of Rhyolite. This collection highlights the state's industrial and cultural evolution, featuring the remarkably intact Nevada Northern Railway in Ely, prehistoric petroglyphs in Keyhole Canyon, and the remnants of Cold War-era nuclear testing at the Project Faultless site. These sites reveal the lives of early indigenous inhabitants, pioneer settlers, and the miners who shaped the Silver State.

Nevada's Historic Treasures — Map

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Nevada Northern Railway Museum

The Nevada Northern Railway Museum is a railroad museum and heritage railroad located in Ely, Nevada, owned by the State of Nevada and…

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Rhyolite Bottle House

Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles northwest of Las Vegas,…

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Baker Archeological Site

Visit a beautiful area best known as an archaeological site, also perfect for camping, picnicking and hiking.

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Earth Oven

A prehistoric roasting pit used by Southern Paiute and earlier cultures for cooking agave and other native plants.

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Bank Saloon

The Bank Saloon, at 418 S. Carson St. in Carson City, Nevada, was built in 1899.

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Adams House

A historic residence in Carson City, originally built in 1922, representing the local residential architectural style of the early 20th century.

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Sand Springs Station

The Sand Springs Station is a historic site in Churchill County, Nevada that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

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Adaven, Nevada

Adaven is a former mining settlement and Ghost town in Nye County, Nevada.

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Cathedral Canyon

A desert folk-art site created by Roland Wiley, featuring bridges and niches built into a natural ravine.

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Keyhole Canyon Petroglyphs

A concentrated collection of prehistoric rock art, including petroglyphs and pictographs attributed to Patayan and Virgin Branch Puebloan cultures.

K

Stone Ferry (submerged)

The remains of a 19th-century ferry crossing on the Colorado River, now submerged beneath the waters of Lake Mead.

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Stewart's Mill

Ruins of an early mining mill in the Silver Peak range, once used for processing ore during Nevada's mineral booms.

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Reed's Ranch

Remnants of a historic ranching outpost in Nye County, illustrating the agricultural history of Nevada's high desert.

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Old Wildhorse Ranch

A remote, abandoned ranching site in the Reveille Valley featuring weathered wooden structures and corrals.

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Ichthyosaur Fossil Shelter

A protected structure within Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park housing the world's largest concentration of Shonisaurus popularis fossils, dating back 225 million years.

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Project Faultless site

The location of a 1968 underground nuclear test, marked by a massive steel pipe and a crater formed by the collapse of the test cavity.

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Oak Springs Trilobite Site

A public fossil-collecting area where 500-million-year-old trilobite impressions can be found in the Pioche Shale.

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Depot;Nevada Northern Railway Museum

The historic 1907 passenger station in Ely, serving as the main entrance to the preserved Nevada Northern Railway complex.

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Bonham School (historical)

The site of a former rural schoolhouse in Washoe County that served local families during the early 20th century.

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Vernon Jail

A small, reinforced concrete structure that is the most prominent remains of the mining town of Vernon, established in 1905.

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