Many people are familiar with the Ward Charcoal Ovens, the beehive-shaped stone historic landmarks located south of Ely. Few, however, realize the ovens were only part of a much larger mining district ...

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, ...

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 ...

denuding mountains of central and eastern Nevada. The only site in the state where the structures are protected is in Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historical Park, where six complete ovens still ...