Berlin Historic District, Ghost town in Nye County, Nevada.
Berlin Historic District is an abandoned mining settlement in Nye County, Nevada, where wooden structures and a thirty-stamp mill remain standing. Mining equipment from the late 1800s lies scattered among the buildings, including ore carts, rails, and tools left where they were placed over a century ago.
Prospectors opened the Berlin Mine in 1896, and the town of Berlin was founded in 1897 within the Union Mining District. It never matched the growth of Tonopah or Goldfield; after the Panic of 1907 and a miners' strike that bankrupted the Atlantic and Pacific Mining Company, workers left. By 1911 the town was largely abandoned, and Nevada acquired the site in 1970.
The name comes from Berlin, Germany, the homeland of a share of the local prospectors. The town was a company town run by the Nevada Company, which kept it maintained until the state acquired it in 1970. Visitors today see the mine supervisor's house, now the park office, the assay office and a machine shop.
The site sits within Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park and can be reached via an unpaved road that runs from the highway through dry hills. Signs along the route explain the mining structures and buildings, while guided visits take place on summer weekends.
The stamp mill is among the few in Nevada that remain fully intact at their original location. Nearby lie major fossil beds of Triassic marine reptiles preserved in the surrounding mountains.
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