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Side view of the two story mercantile and the photography shop next door; Situated atop a small hill between the Superstition Mountains and the Goldfield Mountains, the settlement of Goldfield got its start in 1892 when very rich, high grade gold ore was found in the area. A town soon sprang up and on October 7, 1893 it received its first official post office. It boomed for about 5 years, with a population of 1,500, then died. A revival of gold digging led to a second boom in 1921, when the town was renamed Youngsberg, but it was also abandoned in 1926. Developers built a reconstruction tourist attraction on the site of the Goldfield Mill beginning in 1988. There is a small loop of a narrow gauge railroad and a train ride (a 36" gauge train which consists of a Plymouth diesel pulling a passenger car and a caboose). Source: Goldfield Ghost Town [website]; http://goldfieldghosttown.com/ (accessed 8/4/2013)