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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.
After a beautiful drive I reached my destination of Giltedge Montana. It's an abandoned mining town that contains amazing history--Calamity Jane liked to spend her time here! Above is one of the few homes still left intact in the old mining town. It looks as though it was a farm house and has a very unique barn as well. From the looks of the roof it won't last much longer.
Coober Pedy is a town in the arid interior of South Australia. It has developed a unique culture and appearance. Dominated by the earthworks of opal mining, many homes and businesses are underground to escape the extreme heat. The town is fiiled with unusual collections of mining history, junk, and props and sets from old movies.
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.
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.
Coober Pedy is a town in the arid interior of South Australia. It has developed a unique culture and appearance. Dominated by the earthworks of opal mining, many homes and businesses are underground to escape the extreme heat. The town is fiiled with unusual collections of mining history, junk, and props and sets from old movies.
Grand Imperial Hotel (1882)
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.
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).
Standing on a Corner in Jerome, Arizona;
A Wonderful Sight to See...
Sweet green grapes on the mountain fair,
Giving cool shade for free...
Standing on a Corner in Jerome, Arizona;
A Wonderful Sight to See...
Sweet green grapes in the mountain air,
Giving cool shade for free...
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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.
In front of the Stone Pony you will find different types of relics on display such as this example of an old coal cart that was used to take the coal out of the mine to be loaded onto waiting railroad cars.
Benson Block (1901)
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.
A old wreck in the mining camp, not sure what type of car it was, looks like some old sedan from the 40s.
We took another detour back into the Little Rockies to visit the mining town of Landusky for the very first time! I was not disappointed, it was amazing! It was like stepping back in time. There were old mining cabins galore and beautiful treasures and people leading a slow-paced way of life.
"Powell Landusky, a teenager from Missouri, came to Last Chance Gulch during the late 1870s and eked out an existence panning for gold. In 1880, Landusky, in a fight with some Souix Indians, took a bullet in the jaw, which disfigured him for life. In 1893, Landusky and a partner were prospecting along a ridge when they discovered a vein of rich ore thirteen feet wide that would yield them $13,000 a ton and the stampede was on. The mining camp was known as Sandusky and on June 9, 1894, it officially became the town of Sandusky. Christmas was always a time for celebration for mining activity was at a minimum due to heavy snowfall. It was to be Powell Landusky's last Chtristmas. On the morning of December 26, 1894, Powell Landusky walked into a saloon and ordered a drink for it was bitter cold that morning. Kid Curry, with whom Landusky had been feuding, came into the saloon and a fight between two ensued. Landusky was shot and killed by Kid Curry who later was to join up with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Enough old structures remain to imagine what Landusky was like in its violent days." -ghosttowns.com
Coober Pedy is a town in the arid interior of South Australia. It has developed a unique culture and appearance. Dominated by the earthworks of opal mining, many homes and businesses are underground to escape the extreme heat. The town is fiiled with unusual collections of mining history, junk, and props and sets from old movies.
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California. It became a boom town in 1876 after the discovery of a profitable line of gold, and suddenly attracted several thousand residents. The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes the designated Bodie Historic District as a National Historic Landmark.
Bodie is preserved in a state of arrested decay. Only a small part of the town survived with about 110 structures still standing, including one of many once operational gold mills. Visitors can walk the deserted streets of a town that once was a bustling area of activity. Interiors remain as they were left and stocked with goods.
Animas Forks is a ghost / mining town located on the Alpine Loop about 12 (4x4) miles above Silverton, Colorado.
Victor is an old mining town, situated in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, at an elevation of 9,700 feet. Founded in 1891, the Victor area was once the largest gold producing region in the United States.
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.
Teller House Hotel (1896)
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.
Masonic Temple (1865)
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.
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.
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.