Today, Eureka is situated along “The Loneliest Road in America” on Highway 50. Established in 1864, Eureka was the second richest mining producer in Nevada. Gold and Silver was mined, but the main mineral produced was lead. During the mining days, the town supposedly had 125 saloons, 25 gambling houses, and even a few churches and other businesses. Today, Eureka is a small town, with a couple of aging gambling places, a main road with mostly buildings that are in bad repair and many abandoned structures.
The tailings (by-product of mining operations, aka mining waste) form a substantial hillside leaving Eureka along Highway 50 towards the west.
I think we have been there in 1989….