Candlelight Wedding Chapel (1966, restored to 1996)

This Carpenter Gothic style chapel was once in the middle of the Las Vegas Stip. By the late 1970s, it was one of sixteen wedding chapels in Las Vegas.

On Valentines Day, Saturday February 14, 1981, the Candlelight Wedding Chapel made the Los Angeles Times and national news when it hosted 150 weddings in a single day. Nobody wanted to get married on Friday the 13th, so the next day, Saturday, February 14, was very busy.

In 1987, Saturday Valentines Day, 450 weddings were performed at the chapel, a record number of weddings at a single site over a 24 hour period. That's one wedding ceremony completed every three and one half minutes.

The Chapel's final wedding ceremony was performed in 2005. The chapel was moved to the Clark County Museum in 2007, and re-opened to the public in 2009 to become on one of the museum's most popular historic buildings.

A Ghost Town - Clark County Nevada

A Ghost Town is a town completely abandoned because the businesses that supported the town have failed and the people who lived in the town moved somewhere else.

A Ghost Town

Las Vegas Helldorado Fundraising Jail. From 1934 until 1998 the Elks Club would sell Helldorado buttons during the annual Helldorado rodeo. Someone caught without a button would be sent to this jail until they could get their friends or relatives to buy a button to bail them out.

General Store were like malls for early mining communities.

This jail, built in 1877, was not used much because serious criminals went to the big prison in Elko, 60 miles away. Tuscarora was a rich gold and silver mine town named for the USS TUSCARORA, a US Navy warship from the Civil War.

Blacksmith Shop

1880s Toll Cabin. The one-room cabin could be used by travelers who needed to stay overnight along the way. The traveler would pay the rancher a fee or "toll."

Twenty Mule Team type Wagons.

Scale House. This corrugated metal sided Scale House was used like an office for weighing and grading ore samples. This scale house was built and used during the construction of Hoover Dam.

Ingersoll Rand built this compressor in 1924.

Cranes were mounted on trucks so the crane could be easily moved from one place to another around the jobsite. Because the crane was so heavy, the truck-mounted crane was quite slow. Eventually, they became known as creepers.

1934 Chevrolet

1927 Chevrolet AA Capital 1-ton stake body truck.

Esslinger Barn (1955). Although it looks like a barn it was used more like a garage.

Boulder City Depot (1931). When Boulder City was a new community, this depot was built to provide passenger and freight service from Las Vegas to the city and Hoover Dam.

Union Pacific Caboose 25147 (1944). The most common American caboose in the most common caboose color, Armour Yellow, has a small windowed box on the roof called a cupola.