Historical Markers in Beatty, Nevada

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Historical Markers in Beatty, Nevada

1 ► Nevada, Nye County, Beatty — 1921 Fordson Tractor — Model F —

The Fordson tractor by the Ford Motor Company was the first agricultural tractor to be mass-produced. It was a lightweight, frameless tractor with a vapouriser-fed engine and four metal wheels. Henry Ford was raised as a farmer and yearned . . . — — Map (db m195540) HM

2 ► Nevada, Nye County, Beatty — 173 — Beatty — Center of the Gold Railroads — "Chicago of the West" —

Beatty was the center of three short-lived, so-called "gold" railroads that were spawned by early 1900s strikes in Tonopah, Goldfield and Rhyolite. The town was referred to as the "Chicago of the West". Between 1906 and 1907, . . . — — Map (db m31924) HM

3 ► Nevada, Nye County, Beatty — Desert Hills Cemetery —

Beatty's first and only cemetery, the Desert Hills Cemetery dates back to the beginning of the community. Named for Montillus " Old Man" Beatty, the town was the center of the Bullfrog Mining District. The mining district got it's start with a . . . — — Map (db m107010) HM

4 ► Nevada, Nye County, Beatty — 57 — Old Boundary — Nevada's Southern Boundary 1861 -1867 —

The 37th Degree North Latitude is marked at this point as the dividing line between the territories of Utah and New Mexico under the provisions of the Compromise of 1850 which originally organized the land ceded by Mexico in 1848. When the . . . — — Map (db m46382) HM

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