| Death Valley is a desert valley in Eastern California, in the northern Mojave Desert, bordering the Great Basin Desert. During summer, it is one of the hottest places on Earth, along with deserts in the Middle East and the Sahara. Death Valley's Badwater Basin is the point of lowest elevation in North America, at 282 feet below sea level. |
Goldfield is an unincorporated community and the county seat of Esmeralda County, Nevada. It has a resident population of about 268. Goldfield is located 247 miles southeast of Carson City, along U.S. Route 95.
Gold was discovered in 1902 which quickly led to the development of the town of Goldfield. It started with 36 people in 1903 and had over 25,000 in 1908.
When booming from 1905 through 1910 it had all the amenities of any large city, with fancy restaurants, hotels, athletic clubs, church and social groups of every kind, theaters, shopping, sporting events, unions, all the general businesses of the day, casinos, red light district, gold, high grading, and all the hopes of prosperity |
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