Nineteenth-century charcoal ovens, Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park, Nevada (Kit Leong) Interior of oven, Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park, Nevada (Kit Leong). Tucked into a basin in ...

Ward's most enduring structures, the six beehive-shaped Ward Charcoal Ovens, were constructed in 1876 to produce charcoal for the district's mining smelters. The kilns, located about five miles south ...

The best-preserved of Nevada's charcoal kilns are found at Ward Charcoal Oven State Park, 18 miles south of Ely off U.S. 93, about 220 miles from Las Vegas.

Scattered across Nevada are a handful of 19th century charcoal ovens that resemble nothing less than giant stone beehives. These stone or brick domes were once used to convert wood, often pinon pine, ...

Constructed in 1876 of stone quarried in the area, the ovens provided charcoal to smelters in the neighboring Ward Mining District, where silver was discovered in 1872.