Berlin

No, not _that_ Berlin! This was a mining camp, active around the turn of the last century, in central Nevada that's now part of a state park. The metal of interest was gold. View from the parking lot, showing the old machine shop (left) and the mill. Mills were always built against a hillside so they could use gravity to move the ore thru the processing. The trestle above carried the rails for the ore cars to bring the ore in. The leftmost insert is a view along this old trestle toward the mill; the middle insert shows the portal for the main mine; and the rightmost insert is a view from the spoil heap in front of the portal out over the valley to the west.

Berlin is being maintained in a state of "arrested decay," and in fact a ranger lives on-site in one of the old (but refurbished!) houses.