Gold Center, Nevada
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Gold Center was a mining town in Nye County, Nevada.
Located in the Bullfrog Mining District near Tonopah, Gold Center was established in December of 1904 with a United States Post Office being authorized on January 21, 1905. The town began publishing its own newspaper in 1907. The location of the town was ideal as it was on the stagecoach route between Rhyolite and Beatty. It was also near the Amargosa River, allowing suffient water for drinking and for two mills and an ice house. Gold Center also sold water to Rhyolite and Carrera. The Tonopah and Tidewater Railroad, the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad and the Union Pacific Railroad all ran through Gold Center. Gold Center also had the first brewery in the area which was built underground to maintain a cool temperature.[1]
Today, little remains of the town other than the foundations of a stamp mill, the footers for a tank at the cyanide plant and sections of the water line that ran between Gold Center and Carrera.[1]
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