Typical mining town
Rhyolite, besides being the name of a volcanic rock, is also a town in Nye County, Nevada, United States. It used to be a highly populated mining town. There were about 10,000 inhabitants at the beginning of the last century, the largest city in the area. It had a railway station, hotels, schools, banks ... but it wouldn't last. By 1910, mining was declining and this meant that Rhyolite ended up with only a thousand inhabitants. The nail in the coffin for this town was the power outage in 1916, meaning that by 1920 there was basically nobody left here. Today, Rhyolite is a ghost town and tourist attraction, there is a kind of lodging in the nearby Bullfrog where artists of all kinds come for inspiration, there is also an open-air museum, a house made bottles, the old cemetery, several buildings in ruins, the station, in short, all vestiges of a happy past and a future that never was.
