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The Roslyn Theatre was built in 1904 and was originally the town's mortuary and pharmacy.
Roslyn is located in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains. It was founded in 1886 and became a major coal mining town. More recently, it was the filming location for the exterior scenes of the 90's TV show, Northern Exposure, becoming the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska.
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).
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.
My brother, looking delightfully creepy, poses in front of one of the subsidence valleys in Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Smoke from the long-burning underground coal fire rises in the background.
Mogollon 'ghost' town, located in the wild mountains of southwest New Mexico, visited September 8, 2014. Much to my disappointment, it was much more 'town' than 'ghost', with only a handful of abandoned buildings but several houses and a few businesses, lots of people about getting things fixed up and prepared for the winter. The drive up this location was more interesting than the town itself, one-lane hairpin curves carved out of the hillside. Mogollon boasted a population of several thousand in the late nineteenth century and produced many millions of dollars in gold and silver, but as with all these mining towns, eventually fell victim to played out mines and changing economic fortunes, as well as multiple fires and floods (a creek runs through the middle of the main street).
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The general store in the Sego ghost town.
All of that cut stone, so beautifully assembled, and they just walked away and left it.
Photo #5 in the Sego Canyon series - more to come.
This is a four-exposure HDR image.
Gibson House (Montana Hotel)
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.
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Located at an elevation of 10,152 feet, Leadville is the highest incorporated city in the United States. Founded in 1877 as a silver mining town, Leadville was at one time the second largest city in Colorado, after Denver. Many of the historic mining era building still exist today.
Roslyn is located in the eastern foothills of the Cascade Mountains. It was founded in 1886 and became a major coal mining town. More recently, it was the filming location for the exterior scenes of the 90's TV show, Northern Exposure, becoming the fictional town of Cicely, Alaska.
Røros Mining Town, established in 1646, is a world cultural heritage. It is built entirely of wood, and interlinked with a cultural landscape that shows in an outstanding and almost complete manner how mining operations, transportation, and the way of life had to be adapted to the requirements of the natural environment – the mountain plains, the cold climate, the remote location without roads and with marginal growth conditions for forests and agriculture. This is one of the preserved old houses which reflect those days.
First Congregational Church (1881)
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.
The silver mining town of Pioche reached it's peak in the 1870's, when it had a population of about 6,000. Today around 1000 people live in town. It is a wonderful and historic frontier town to explore.
Per PTOTD News:
Day 3: Wednesday - April 17, 2019, 9:15 am -- Depart the Hotel and head to Oatman, AZ; an old mining town on Route 66, where you will have time for shopping, to see the mules running wild, and a gunfight at high noon. We will depart Oatman at 12:30 pm and arrive at the Hotel for lunch and a nap around 1:15pm. At 3:30 pm the bus will depart for Las Vegas. We will be arriving around 5:30 pm. to eat, shop and enjoy the lightshow, Viva Vision at the Fremont Street Experience at 8 pm and 9 pm. We will depart at 9:15 pm and arrive back at the hotel around 11:15 pm.
Fraternity Hall of Elkhorn. Many groups celebrated here in the 1880's, sometime even staging prizefights in the spacious interior. Once, during a dance, two men got into a fight over what kind of music the band should play. The squaredancer shot the waltzer dead - and was later hanged for it.
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.
The abandoned company town of Cassiar once had over 1500 residents. When the asbestos mine that employed the community shut down, the provincial government refused to intervene to help the residents who wanted to preserve the town. The community was subsequently bulldozed and many of the buildings were auctioned off.
For more information, Suzanne Leblanc's book "Cassiar: A Jewel in the Wilderness" is worth the read. Cassiar shares a similar, though worse fate, to Faro, YT; Granisle, BC; Pine Point, NWT; and a number of other company mining towns that died or nearly died in the early 1990s.
Interestingly, there seem to be some people living off-grid near Marble Creek, just outside the old town site. I can see the appeal.
In the 1880's, Virginia City was one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi River. Today it is one of the best preserved historic mining towns in the United States.
Cripple Creek is an historic mining town located high up in the Colorado Rockies. Founded in 1890 during the Colorado Gold Rush, ten years later it had a population of over 50,000. Today it is a popular tourist town, with casinos taking over most of the downtown buildings.
See the previous photo for another view of this same location. This image captures a bit of the main drag further down the street to the west, along Highway 60 East which goes through Miami.
One of a series of images, all taken at the site of the old Silver Front Cafe, a former restaurant in Miami, Arizona.
Carnegie Library (1904)
Located at an elevation of 10,152 feet, Leadville is the highest incorporated city in the United States. Founded in 1877 as a silver mining town, Leadville was at one time the second largest city in Colorado, after Denver. Many of the historic mining era building still exist today.