Historical Markers in Beatty, Nevada

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Historical Markers in Beatty, Nevada

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

On Main Street east of Irving Street, on the right when traveling east.

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" —

On U.S. 95, on the left when traveling south.

Beatty was the center of three short-lived, so-called "gold" railroads that were spawned by the strikes of the early 1900's in Tonopah, Goldfield and Rhyolite. During 1906-'07 three railroads were built in this area. The Las Vegas and . . . — — Map (db m31924) HM

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

On A Avenue south of Cottonwood Drive, on the left when traveling south.

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 —

On U.S. 95, 1.6 miles north of East Main Street, on the left when traveling north.

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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