7Rhyolite, Nevada
Situated on the edge of famous Death Valley, this Gold Rush was founded in 1904 and abandoned by 1916, even though it was the state’s third-largest city. The infamous Panic of 1907 caused most of the mines to close, the banks to fail, and local newspapers to stop the presses. In 1911 when the Montgomery Shoshone Mine shut down and remaining residents left within the next few years.
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