Rhyolite Jail Door
by Jurgen Lorenzen
Title
Rhyolite Jail Door
Artist
Jurgen Lorenzen
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Rhyolite jail had heavy steel doors and steel bared windows. The judge's office was in the front part of the building and six steel cells housed Rhyolite's rowdier residences in the rear.
Like countless other Southwestern mining towns, Rhyolite, Nevada, flourished for just a few years, until the gold ores in the surrounding hills were exhausted, but at its peak in 1908 the place was a substantial settlement, home to over 5,000 residents and boasting such advanced facilities as a school, opera house, bank, railway station, swimming pool and stock exchange. The town declined rapidly after the brief boom and was largely abandoned by the early 1920s; most of the buildings are now completely gone and just a few of the larger establishments remain, in various stages of dereliction, though Rhyolite was never completely deserted, and today has a population of 20 or so, who help maintain the surviving remnants.
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