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The Ghost Town of Bannack is located in the mountains of Southwest Montana. The town began in 1862 when gold was discovered along Grasshopper Creek. It quickly flourished into a boom town of over 4000 people and was briefly the Territorial Capital of Montana. As with most mining towns, the boom turned to bust, and the town was down to one resident by the 1950's. Today it is a Montana State Park and is one of the best preserved ghost towns in the American West.
Darwin is a small desert community located just west of Death Valley National Park. It was founded in 1874 and was a prosperous mining town for awhile.
The Colonnade Hotel was built in 1880. It was originally the meeting house of the Italian Benevolent Society.
Eureka is an old mining town located in central Nevada along US 50, formerly the Lincoln Highway.
Virginia City was founded in 1863 when gold was discovered in Alder Gulch. By 1864 there were 10,000 people mining in the area. After the gold rush, the town quickly declined. Today, Virginia City is mostly a tourist town, with a year round population of around 200.
View of town from Boot Hill Cemetery
Virginia City was founded in 1863 when gold was discovered in Alder Gulch. By 1864 there were 10,000 people mining in the area. After the gold rush, the town quickly declined. Today, Virginia City is mostly a tourist town, with a year round population of around 200.
Darwin is a small desert community located just west of Death Valley National Park. It was founded in 1874 and was a prosperous mining town for awhile.
Iglesia de Petorca, pueblo minero que mezcló familias acomodadas de empresarios, con catadores de oro, pirquineros, tahures, prostitutas, comerciantes; se dice que es nada menos que el lugar donde murió el Diablo. De acuerdo a la misma tradición habría sido enterrado en La Ligua, a unos 50 kms.
Si, como dice una conocida canción, el mismo maligno nació "entre Pichi y Talamí", es decir en la zona de Villa Alhué (Melipilla), a unos 300 kms, tenemos completo el cuadro con su despreciable y vil biografía.
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The Petorca Church, mining town were the Devil dead,Chile
Petorca's Church, a mining town of old families of entrepreneurs, gold tasters, gamblers, prostitutes, traders, is said to be none other than the place where the Devil died. According to the same tradition he had been buried in La Ligua, about 30 miles.
If, as say a tradicional tune, the evil was born "between Pichi and Talami", in the area of Villa Alhué (Melipilla), as far as 200 miles, we complete the picture with his despicable and vile biography.
Title: Miners' Cottages.
Creator: Bulmore, Robert R.; Winn, S.W.
Date: ca. 1885-1895
Part Of: Views of New Almaden
Place: New Almaden, Santa Clara County, California
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History
Grass Valley dates from the California Gold Rush, as does nearby Nevada City. It was originally named Centreville when a post office was established in 1851, but renamed Grass Valley the following year for unknown reasons. The town incorporated in 1860.[2]
Grass Valley is the location of the Empire Mine and North Star Mine, two of the richest mines in California. Many of those who came to settle in Grass Valley were tin miners from Cornwall. They were attracted to the California gold fields because the same skills needed for deep tin mining were needed for hardrock (deep) gold mining. Many of them specialized in pumping the water out of very deep mining shafts. This followed the disastrous fall in tin prices as large alluvial deposits began to be exploited elsewhere.
Grass Valley still holds on to its Cornish heritage, with events such as its annual Cornish Christmas and St Piran's Day celebrations.[7] Pasties are a local favorite dish with a few restaurants in town specializing in recipes handed down from the original immigrant generation. Grass Valley is also twinned with the Cornish town of Bodmin, UK.
There was formerly a Roman Catholic diocese of Grass Valley.[8]
Part of Disney's 1957 film Old Yeller was shot here.
El pueblo de Grass Valley data desde los tiempos de la Fiebre del oro de California, al igual que el pueblo vecino Nevada City. Originalmente el pueblo se llamó Centreville cuando en 1851 se estableció una oficina de correos y un año mas tarde cambio al nombre de Grass Valley por razones aun desconocidas. El pueblo fue incorporado en el año 1860.
En Grass Valley se encuentran dos de las minas mas ricas de California, la Mina de el Imperio (Empire Mine) y la mina de La Estrella Del Norte (North Star Mine) . Muchos de los primero habitantes que llegaron a Grass Valley eran mineros de estaño en Cornwall. Muchas de las tradiciones que estos nuevos immigrantes Ingleses trajeron con ellos continuan vigentes como especialidades culinarias y religiosas.
Terlingua Trading Company
Terlingua is a "ghost Town" located just outside the west entrance to Big Bend National Park. It was founded in the 1880's as a mining town. Today it caters to tourists.
Located at 9,305 feet in southwest Colorado, Silverton was a booming mining town in the late 19th Century. Today it depends on tourism, especially day trippers arriving on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad.
Silverton Museum is located in the old gaol buildings. Silverton was established in the 1880s after miners came to the region seeking silver. Lead and zinc was also found in the region. Most miners moved on to the larger centre of Broken Hill nearby and Silverton gradually dwindled towards becoming a ghost town. It has been maintained as a tourist destination. Located in far western New South Wales in Australia.
Telluride in the 1880's was a wild mining town where these small houses were occupied by prostitutes . Although there was probably a lot of money floating around I can't imagine that the "girls" had a happy life.
Shown are duplexes built to house miners at Cornwall Furnace. Photo shows only one side of the street and, hence, only half the village. Field trip taken by Claire, John, and Scott. January 21, 2007.
Elkhorn Barber Shop
Nevada City was founded in 1863 when gold was discovered in Alder Gulch. By 1864 there were 10,000 people mining in the area. After the gold rush, the town quickly declined. Today Nevada City is mostly an open air museum with over 100 historic buildings. Some are original Nevada City structures, others have been brought here from other areas of Montana.
2011 road trip west. This is in Yarnell, AZ. The property these buildings on is actually for sale (as of Nov. 2011 it is/was). Super glad I found this & the owners were in town for me to go play.
Fairplay, Colorado - September 16, 2020: Marker for the South Park City Museum on the National Register of HIstoric Places
Yeah you leave me holding on
In Edge Hill town
See lights go down
I'm hanging on
You're all that's left to hold on to
I'm still waiting
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Red Hill Mining Town is a song by the rock band U2. It is the sixth track from their 1987 album, The Joshua Tree. A rough version of this song was worked on during the early Joshua Tree album writing sessions in 1985. The focus of the song is on the National Union of Mineworkers' 1984 strike in Great Britain that occurred in response to the National Coal Board's campaign to close uneconomic mines. A music video was produced in February 1987 for the song and was directed by Neil Jordan. The song was planned for release as the album's second single, but it was ultimately shelved in favour of "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hill_Mining_Town
Edge Hill is a district of Liverpool, England, south east of the city centre, bordered by Kensington, Wavertree and Toxteth. Edge Hill University was founded there, but moved to Ormskirk in the 1930s.
Did you know: all trains to the central Liverpool Lime Street station used to stop at Edge Hill, giving rise to the expression "getting off at Edge Hill" as a euphemism for coitus interruptus.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge_Hill,_Liverpool
Image of sign on Holt Road at the boundary of Edge Hill by John Bradley on Wikimedia Commons w.wiki/3HTU
Scandalous, I know! I hope I do not offend anyone with the subject of this photo but history is history, and here's my take on it. Here we reach one of the most "colorful" and interesting buildings in Giltedge. When I found out what this was I looked around and wondered...has any church survived? No. Businesses? Not really. And the other homes are in poor condition, and not very accessible.
But of course, fully accessible standing right beside the main road, is the brothel. It has very much survived, still standing tall although the church and town businesses have fallen. The very realization of this made me laugh. Such is life. It reminded me of something mom and I would talk about. I would always ask why such good things happened to mean people, and she would away say "well the wicked always seem to prosper! I don't understand why that is Arielle." The brothel is actually a very beautiful old house, look at that porch! I didn't go inside but according to this website: www.montanahikes.com/Judith_mountains.php (which calls this place the "home for the ladies who kept the miners comfortable at night" quite polite!) the interior is very complex, with many rooms. It also says there is an open well behind the house, probably awaiting nosy photographers like me! Out of respect to the property owners I didn't go inside, but next time (there will be a next time) I think I will. I couldn't help but wonder how many beautiful furnishings this place had, and beautiful costumes and outfits for the girls. Not a wonderful way of life, but interesting none the less! History is alive and well at this house.
"During 1900-1901 Gilt Edge was considered one of the best towns in the country. Gilt Edge reached its peak between 1908 and 1909. Calamity Jane, calling it her favorite, frequented Gilt Edge. On several occasions she spent time in their jail." -centralmt.com
For more information on this old mining town check out these very helpful links:
Las Vegas & Tonopah Depot - Erected in June 1909. One of three railroads that served Rhyolite. The other two were the Tonopah Tidewater Railroad and the Bullfrog Goldfield Railroad.
(From BLM Brochure)
The town of Rhyolite was founded in 1904 when gold was discovered in the nearby Bullfrog Mining District. It quickly become a boom town, boasting three railroad lines, three banks, an opera house and numerous saloons and restaurants. The prosperity didn't last long and by 1910 Rhyolite was in decline. Today it is the best known ghost town in Nevada, administered by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
Built in 1891 as a schoolhouse, this building is now City Hall.
Idaho City was founded in 1862 after gold was discovered in Boise Basin. It quickly became the largest city in the Pacific Northwest. Today tourism is the main business in Idaho City.
I stayed in this hotel in Wallace, Idaho and it was quite pleasant: I was the only guest. It looks like something out of a Jim Thompson novel, but everything inside is clean and functional.
The last time I came to Wallace, Idaho was in 1995, and since then a few bars have closed, several gift shops and art galleries have opened, there's now a book store, the restaurant food is noticeably better, and the population has declined even more to a current estimate of 870 people.
What is remarkable about Wallace is that not only is the entire downtown on the National Registry of Historic Places, but aside from a US Bank and a Wells Fargo, there is not a single intrusion by national chains--no McDonalds, 7-11, Safeway, or Motel 6.
Wallace was built to serve the mining industry--silver in particular--and some extraction still goes on. The scene of radical labor action in the 1890s that required the intervention of the US Army, Wallace was until the late 1970s considered a wide open town: prostitution, gambling, and questionable alcohol sales were all tolerated.
Wallace is the birthplace of Lana Turner, and in conjunction with the neighboring towns in the Silver Valley has an extremely high occurrence of cancer--probably due to more than a century of hard rock mining and the ensuing waste.
If you don't need a job, this is a cheap place to live: I saw an ad for two bedroom, one bath house for $59,000.
Boot Hill Cemetery
Virginia City was founded in 1863 when gold was discovered in Alder Gulch. By 1864 there were 10,000 people mining in the area. After the gold rush, the town quickly declined. Today, Virginia City is mostly a tourist town, with a year round population of around 200.
The following info is off the information board at the Gorge site carpark, on the western side of the gorge.
The first bridge built across Spring Creek here was a wooden bridge built in the early 1850's.
It was decided to replace the bridge with one that would be in service for the next 200 years'.
Quarry owners Donald Fiddes and Co contracted Scottish stonemasons to build the bridge and work stated on 2 April, 1874, it was opened in 1875.
The bridge cost 2,450 Pounds and was built without mortar, using keystones to lock the granite blocks together.
Considered to be the best bridge in the colonies, it is still going strong today.
The Newton Bridge, Beechworth. www.travelling-australia.info/CollBeechworth/APics2D.html
Taken with just the ambient light, the Lombard/Gable room displays a number of historic items from the time when Carole Lombard passed in a plane crash on nearby Potosi Mountain.
From a totem pole on the governor's mansion. The native art in Juneau reflects the culture of the Tlingit (originally known as the Auke) people of the area.
Written on the postcard -
The business district looks very much like it did in 1907. The five story state bank building was completed in 1906, the Mizpah a year later. These two five story buildings were the two tallest buildings in the state of Nevada for more than forty years.
From Wikipedia -
Tonopah is a census-designated place (CDP) located in and the county seat of Nye County, Nevada. It is located at the junction of U.S. Routes 6 and 95 approximately mid-way between Las Vegas and Reno.
Its name was given to it by its founder, Jim Butler, and it is thought to be a Shoshone Indian word, pronounced "tow-nu-paw". Although the town previously had a variety of names, including Butler City, Jim Butler's name remained. It is said to mean "hidden spring".
In the 2000 census the population was 2,627 and the CDP has a total area of 16.2 square miles (42 km2), all land.
History
The community began about 1900 with the discovery of gold and silver rich ore by prospector Jim Butler when he went looking for a lost burro (donkey) he owned. The burro had wandered off during the night and had sought shelter near a rock outcropping. When Butler discovered the animal the next morning, he picked up a rock to throw at the beast, but instead noticed the rock was unusually heavy. He had stumbled upon the second-richest silver strike in Nevada history. The ore eventually played out, and abandoned mines can be found throughout the area.
In 1903, miners rioted against Chinese workers in Tonopah, which spurred a boycott in China of U.S. goods.
Recently, Tonopah has relied on the nearby Tonopah Test Range as its main source of employment. The military has used the range and surrounding areas as a nuclear test site, a bombing range, and as a base of operations for the development of the F-117 Nighthawk.
Tonopah's current fame may rest on the reference to it in the chorus of the song "Willin'" by Lowell George of Little Feat on the albums Little Feat, Sailin' Shoes and Waiting for Columbus, but it is also possible that the song is actually referring to Tonopah, Arizona:
And I've been from Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonopah.
I've driven every kind of rig that's ever been made;
driven the backroads so I wouldn't get weighed.