Millers

Millers was built to handle ore that came from somewhere else. A desert watering stop on the road to Tonopah, it took off in 1904 when the railroad arrived, and was named for Charles Miller—a railroad director, the Tonopah Mining Company's vice president, and a former governor of Delaware. His company's hundred-stamp cyanide mill rose here in 1906, then another mill and the railroad's repair shops. Boosters imagined the world's greatest ore-shipping center; the town reached barely three hundred. The shops left, the trains stopped, and Millers is a highway rest area now.

What the plaque says

As a result of the mining excitement at Tonopah in 1901 and subsequent construction of the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad, Millers was founded in 1904 as a station and watering stop on that line. The name honors Charles R. Miller, a director of the railroad and former Governor of Delaware. He was also Vice President of the Tonopah Mining Company and was instrumental in having their 100-stamp cyanide mill build here in 1906. In 1907 the town boomed with the construction of the T and G R.R.'s repair shops and another large mill. The population grew to 274 in 1910. The town then boasting a business district and post office. By 1911, the railroad shops and a mill had been moved away, and Millers began to decline. It was abandoned in 1947 when the railroad went out of business. State Historical Marker No. 101 Nevada State Park System American Legion, Nevada Dept.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Tonopah — 13 mi
  The Queen of the Silver Camps — the 1900 strike that saved Nevada, and the one boom town that never became a ghost: a mine you can walk into, a grand hotel, a clown motel, and the darkest skies in America.

More markers nearby

• Tonopah — 13 mi
• Silver Peak — 19 mi
• Blair — 26 mi