Ward Charcoal Ovens of Nevada, USA

Ward Charcoal Ovens State Historic Park is located in south of the town of Ely in White Pine County, Nevada. The most impressive feature of this area is the 6 coal Ovens which is  thirty feet tall and twenty-seven feet in diameter at the base, with a wall thickness of 20 inches. These honey comb shaped structure are actually coal kilns or coal furnaces operated from 1876 to 1879, they were coal-fired stoves from pine wood and juniper wood.