
By 1880 Nevadaville was a town of 1,084, but today only a few structures and residents remain. This predominately Cornish and Irish community contained many mines and mills, of which the most notable is the huge, open-pit mine known as the Glory Hole. Most surviving structures are of native yellow rock with brick fronts. They include a ram-shackle barn labeled City Hall (c. 1870) across Main Street (Gilpin County 1) from the town's grandest edifice, the two-story Masonic Temple (1879). Kramer's Saloon (1876) and the Bon Ton Saloon (1880s) are hangovers from livelier times when thirteen saloons lubricated Nevadaville.