4 August 1904 Bullfrog claim discovered by Harris and Cross

November 1904 Rhyolite townsite staked

15 January 1905 Rhyolite townsite platted

19 January 1905 Beatty Post Office opened

15 February 1905 Rhyolite lots offered for sale

April 1905 Porter brothers haul goods from Randsburg to Beatty

5 May 1905 First issue of the Rhyolite Herald

May 1905 Rhyolite population estimated at 1500

June 1905 Porter brothers open store on Main St. in Rhyolite

17 June 1905 Rhyolite Post Office opened

1 July 1905 Southern Hotel opens

July 1905 Rhyolite Township established

August 1905 Rhyolite gets piped water; school district formed;

Miner's Hospital built; swimming pool opens

September 1905 Senator Stewart moves into new residence in Bullfrog

October 1905 Porter Brothers store opens on Golden St.

29 November 1905 Rhyolite Board of Trade organized

15 December 1905 1st fatal gunfight --- Sullivan & Clayton

February 1906 Bottle House completed

18 April 1906 San Francisco earthquake

22 October 1906 1st Beatty Railroad Day --- LV&T arrives

31 October 1906 1st ore shipment by rail from Tramps Consolidated Mine

14 December 1906 LV&T arrives in Rhyolite

January 1907 400 power poles erected in Rhyolite

January 1907 Rhyolite population estimated at 3500

March 1907 Rhyolite jail built

1 March 1907 Construction begins on Cook Bank Bldg

25 March 1907 Rhyolite Stock Exchange opens

25 April 1907 2nd Beatty Railroad Day --- B&G arrives.

25 April 1907 Electricity in Rhyolite

May 1907 Rhyolite population estimated at 5000

2 June 1907 Overbury Bldg. opens

18 June 1907 B&G arrives in Rhyolite

June 1908 Train depot completed; Overbury Building open

July 1908 Rhyolite Post Office moved to basement of Cook Bank Bldg.

January 1909 Rhyolite school building opened

30 April 1910 Street lights turned off

14 May 1910 Porter Brothers Store closes

1910 Rhyolite population is 675

March 1911 Montgomery-Shoshone mine shut down

8 April 1911 Last issue of the Rhyolite Herald

15 September 1919 Rhyolite Post Office closes

1920 Rhyolite population is 14

1922 Rhyolite population is 1

1924 Rhyolite is deserted

1925 Bottle House is restored/reroofed by Paramount

Leased to Murphy/Moffat and turned into a museum

10 November 1934 Shorty Harris died

1936 Train depot is converted to a casino/museum

1956 Murphy died. Tommy Thompson takes over at Bottle House

1990's Numerous old mining claims  reopened by Barrick

2000 Barrick ceases mining operations in Rhyolite

40,000+ visitors a year visit Rhyolite
 
 

RHYOLITE: THE BOOM YEARS, Alan H. Patera, Western Places, P.O. Box 2093, Lake Grove, OR 97035

LIFE IN THE GHOST CITY OF RHYOLITE, Betsy Ritter

RHYOLITE:DEATH VALLEY'S GHOST CITY OF GOLDEN DREAMS, Harold & Lucille Weight, The Calico Press, (1953 originally) 1996 reprint by Death Valley Natural History Association, Death Valley, CA 92328

DEATH VALLEY GHOST TOWNS VOLUME I, Stanley W. Paher, 1981, Nevada Publications, Box 15444, Las Vegas, NV

VISITOR'S GUIDE TO HISTORIC PLACES IN NYE COUNTY, NEVADA, Stan & Jacqueline Mitchell

Nye County Historic Property Survery of Rhyolite, Central Nevada Historical Society, Box 326, Tonopah, NV 89049.