By 1867, much of the population had taken off for a nearby and more prosperous mining town called Belmont ... way off the ...

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 ...

this mesmerizing ghost town once symbolized the height of Nevada’s silver boom. Back at the time, it was a bustling community built on silver and quartz deposits. After that, Belmont quickly ...

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 ...