The Esmeralda County-Gold Point Mining District,
close to Hawthorne, Nevada.
Photos and descriptions courtesy of Bill Trowsdale, the Antioch, California "Desert Rat."
To enlarge the pictures, click on each one.

The main street of Gold Point.
Today's population is closing in on 27.

This the main headworks of the gold mine.========>

Another view of Main Street, Goldpoint, NV.

The Official Townsite Residence.==========>
This is the former saloon but the sign seems to indicate this is where you'll find the "jefe" for this ghost town.

The east side of Main Street with a current residence still occupied. Photo taken in 1994.

Looking south on the west side of Main Street.==========>
Bill Trowsdale says that there are still people living in trailers, south of town who are working an active mine.

The mine shaft at Stateline Mill, NV.This a few miles south of Gold Point.

An underground dwelling site.; ==========>
A family couldn't afford lumber, so they built a three room dwelling undergorund

A partial- underground miner's abode, at Stateline Mill.

The Stateline Mill, or all that's left of it.; ==========>
The names for sites often came from the prominent fixture...so Stateline Mill it was.

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