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madrid, new mexico
1975
miners' houses
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Best if viewed large. An almost ghost town found bout 70 miles south of Nampa, Idaho Note the building on the lower right and it's add on. I've never seen anyone match the contour of the ground with siding they way it was done here. I wonder if the floor matches too?
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
One year after the Masonic Temple. Hmmmm. Best if viewed large. An old mining town from the late 1800's Silver City Idaho isn't exactly a ghost town, there are something like three year round residents who are snowed in thru the winter months. Sure hope they like one another. Wikepedia has a lot of info on this old city.
Besbee, Arizona has neighborhoods of Victorian and European-style homes perched miraculously on the hillsides. I heard, many artists live in this old Copper mine town.
Nikon FG | Kodak Ektar 100
Spruce Pine, NC - Mitchell County
© 2010
Some Dude, Koda, Dorinda, and shadowhome.
Jerome is a town in the Black Hills of Yavapai County in the U.S. state of Arizona. Founded in the late 19th century on Cleopatra Hill overlooking the Verde Valley, it is more than 5,000 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. It is about 100 miles (160 km) north of Phoenix along State Route 89A between Sedona and Prescott. Supported in its heyday by rich copper mines, it was home to more than 10,000 people in the 1920s. As of the 2010 census, its population was 444. (Borrowed from Wikipedia)
madrid, new mexico
1975
miners' houses
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
This old mining town in SW Colorado sits in a very photogenic dead-end canyon. The town itself has many fixed-up charming Victorians (painted in a great variety of colors). It's a major winter ski resort. The buildings you see sit at about 8000' and those mtns are over 13,000'. At this date of May 30th there was still lots of snow on the mtn tops. That waterfall in the photo is about 200' high and can be plainly seen from the main street in town. If you go a little closer to those cliffs, one can see the highest waterfall in Colorado (360'). The zig zap pattern on that steep slope is an old wagon trail cut by the miners in the Gold Rush days to access the high basins where gold was more likely to be found.
Completed in 1917, located 10 miles south of Trinidad, CO in the abandoned mining town of Morley, CO.
According ton my tour guide the best restaurant in Chloride. Shot in infrared with an IR Chrome Filter.
Scenes from Picher - Abandoned church
Picher, Oklahoma
Tuesday afternoon 31 January 2017
Picher, Oklahoma is a former mining town, considered a major center of lead and zinc mining in the early half of the 20th century, and had a peak population of 14,252 in 1926.
But with a decline in mining operations, the town's population declined as well. Mining ceased in the late 1960's, and the resulting effects on the land and water created a significant environmental problem for the town and area.
The most visible of these effects are the many large chat piles (large mounds of toxic and lead-contaminated waste pilings and dust as a result of mining activities) that surround Picher.
In 1980, Picher was designated a Superfund site - eventually the federal and state governments ordered the whole town evacuated and its residents relocated - one of only a handful of towns evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental damage.
An EF4 tornado in 2008 caused significant damage to whatever was left of Picher at the time - and just accelerated the exodus.
The town was officially dissolved in November 2013.
And as of 2015, the official population of Picher is 0 (zero) - essentially making it a ghost town.
[Information obtained from Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma]
Scenes from Picher - Massive chat pile in the middle of the ghost town, and many streets gated/blocked off.
Picher, Oklahoma
Tuesday afternoon 31 January 2017
Picher, Oklahoma is a former mining town, considered a major center of lead and zinc mining in the early half of the 20th century, and had a peak population of 14,252 in 1926.
But with a decline in mining operations, the town's population declined as well. Mining ceased in the late 1960's, and the resulting effects on the land and water created a significant environmental problem for the town and area.
The most visible of these effects are the many large chat piles (large mounds of toxic and lead-contaminated waste pilings and dust as a result of mining activities) that surround Picher.
In 1980, Picher was designated a Superfund site - eventually the federal and state governments ordered the whole town evacuated and its residents relocated - one of only a handful of towns evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental damage.
An EF4 tornado in 2008 caused significant damage to whatever was left of Picher at the time - and just accelerated the exodus.
The town was officially dissolved in November 2013.
And as of 2015, the official population of Picher is 0 (zero) - essentially making it a ghost town.
[Information obtained from Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma]
Photographed during my trip to the fun and funky town of Chloride, AZ which is located about 60 miles south east of Henderson, NV. The Dead Ass Saloon is located in Cyanide Springs, a replica of an Old West town in the center of Chloride. I couldn't leave without photographing it!
Chloride, Arizona was "established in the early 1860s (often cited as 1862 or 1863), and got its name from the silver chloride found in abundance throughout the local mountains. It is recognized as the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in the state of Arizona. In addition to silver, the miners found zinc, copper, lead, molybdenum, and turquoise. At one point, there were over 75 working mines and over 2,000 people living in Chloride. It grew from a silver mining camp into a bustling town.
Chloride began to decline after 1893 with the drop in silver prices, although it continued to produce other minerals.
By 1917, the population began to drop, and by 1944, it was nearly a ghost town as mines closed due to lower prices and the impacts of World War II. Unlike many other boomtowns, Chloride never fully emptied, maintaining a small population and holding on as a "living ghost town."
Besbee, Arizona old copper mine town has neighborhoods of Victorian and European-style homes perched miraculously on the hillsides.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
madrid, new mexico
1975
miners' houses
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
madrid, new mexico
1975
miner's house
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Yerranderie Regional Park, NSW.
Yerranderie was formerly a silver mining town of 2000 people, but the mining industry collapsed in 1927, and the town was cut off from direct access from Sydney by the establishment of the Warragamba Dam and Lake Burragorang in 1959. The Yerranderie Post Office opened on 1 November 1899 and closed in 1958.
The town is now divided into two sections, the residential township adjacent to a private airstrip and the historic site one kilometre further west. The area is surrounded by abandoned mine shafts and mining relics.
Company store in Sego Ghost Town in Grand County, Utah. It lies in the narrow, winding Sego Canyon, about 8.0 km north of Thompson Springs. Formerly an important eastern Utah coal mining town, Sego was inhabited about 1910–1955. The town is accessed via the grade of the Ballard & Thompson Railroad, a spur from the Denver and Rio Grande Western built by the founders of the town to transport the coal.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
As the center sign reads:
St, John's Church
Silver Reef, Utah 1879
The sign on the left reads:
Bishop Lawrence J. Scanlan
1843-1915
Father Lawrence J. Scanlan was born in County Tipperary, Ireland, on October 3, 1843. He attended All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland and was ordained a priest on June 2, 1868, for the Diocese of San Franciso. Instead of crossing the continent by team or train, he travelled to California by way of Panama, walking across the Isthmus to get the boat at Panama City sailing north. After serving in several places, he was assigned o Pioche, Nevada, where he ministered to the miners from March 16, 1869 to about 1875, when he was finally sent to Salt Lake City, Utah.
In 1875 a silver strike was made at Silver Reef. Father Scanlan went to Silver Reef in 1877 and was greeted by many of his former parishioners from Pioche. He returned in November of 1878 to build St. John's Church which was completed in the Spring of 1879.
Father Scanlan returned to Salt Lake City in 1879, where he was appointed Vicar Bishop of the Diocese of Salt Lake City in 1886. Bishop Scanlan died May 10, 1915, in Salt Lake City.
Erected by the Catholics of the So. West Deanery. In Memory of Rev. Scanlan and the Catholic Pioneers who settled Silver Reef.
The plaque on the right reads:
St. John's Church
After his 1877 visit to Silver Reef, Father Scanlan appointed Father Dennis Kiely as the local pastor. The increasing Catholic population continued to ask for a church. father Scanlan returned in November 1878 to accomplish this objective. The money was collected and the church completed in the spring of 1879 at the cost of $2,372.14. Father Henry T. Hyde was pastor in 1880; Father P. O'Connor, 1881; and Father P. Galligan, 1882.
The church had no tower when it was finished. Father Hyde began to collect money and eventually the tower was built and a four-hundred-pound bell installed.
St. Mary's School was opened in the Church on September 1, 1879, by the Sisters of the Holy Cross from St. Mary's, Indiana. Mormon children also attended this school and took the music lessons offered.
St. John's Hospital was built in 1879 at the request of the miners. It was financed in part by the employees of the mines and mills at Silver Reef, each paying a dollar a month. This amounted to $200.00 a month, and with other monies collected, the hospital was completed at a cost of $2,149,07 and opened in September, 1879. It was a two-story structure with living quarters on the ground floor for the sisters assigned to work and teach at Silver Reef. Sisters who served at St. John's were: Sister Mary Beniti Bryson, Sister Mary Anicetus Crowe, Sisters Mary Leonard Forrestal, Sister Mary Constance Hayes, Sister Mary Regis Kelly, Sister Mary Eleutherius Monclair, Sister Mary Bernard O'Neill, Sister Mary Euphrosine Pepin, and Sister Mary Febronia Ward.
After the great fire in 1879 and other fires in 1881, along with the declining prices in silver, and the threats of strikes in the mines, the closing of several mines led to the abandonment of Silver Reef. St. John's was closed in 1883.
Sometime after 1888 the church building was purchased and moved by Pappy Stirling to the grounds next to his home in Leeds, Utah. It was used for dances and other social gatherings. The lumber from the hospital was sold to Robert C. Lund for his home in St. George, Utah.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
JULIAN IS A HISTORIC GOLD MINING AREA AND THE ARCHITECTURE REFLECTS ITS RURAL HERITAGE -
Julian Branch Library:
First Library Bond Act library
to open its doors
Rampant wildfires destroyed much of rural San Diego County in 2003, but firefighters saved historic downtown Julian, including the Julian Branch Library then under construction. In spite of the fires, the library was completed on schedule.
In this remote mountain community of 6000, roads are sometimes impassable. There is no cable service, no movie theatre, nor video rental outlet. Luckily, the new Julian Library now gives this isolated community a window on the world.
Julian residents use the Julian library’s video collection for both educational videos and feature films. In addition, the library’s 20 public-use computers provide students and residents access to a wide range of database resources available from the San Diego County Library network via the Internet.
At approximately 10,000 square feet, the Julian Branch is not the largest library in the state, but, says Marilyn Crouch, retired director of the San Diego County Library, of which Julian is a part, “it has a huge impact on both library services and the lives of the residents of Julian,” sixty percent of whom hold library cards. Located adjacent to the Julian elementary, middle, and high schools, the Julian Branch is a joint-use library with a homework center for the community’s students who previously had to use an un-staffed school library with only 2,000 volumes. Their new public library can house over 20,000 volumes and will let Julian’s youth do schoolwork without traveling to the nearest regional library over 55 miles away.
The new public library branch also offers study rooms, a community meeting room, and a Friends of the Library Bookstore.
Julian is an historic Gold Rush-era community, where many of the buildings still look as if they were built in the 1860’s. The new Julian Branch, located in Julian’s commercial center, reflects the historical, rural, and architectural elements of other buildings in the vicinity, including the 1888 schoolhouse in which the library was formerly housed. In fact, the new library’s cupola is an exact replica of the schoolhouse’s, providing a visual recollection of the library’s former home.
The Julian Branch is unique in other ways. It was among the first group of libraries funded from the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2000 (Bond Act of 2000) and was the first project to break ground. In September 2004 the Julian Branch Library became the first Bond Act-funded library in the state to open its doors to the public.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
madrid, new mexico
1975
abandoned mine and miner's house
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
Julian high school is at the left of the image. This library is also the school's library; shared use.
Julian Branch Library:
First Library Bond Act library
to open its doors
Rampant wildfires destroyed much of rural San Diego County in 2003, but firefighters saved historic downtown Julian, including the Julian Branch Library then under construction. In spite of the fires, the library was completed on schedule.
In this remote mountain community of 6000, roads are sometimes impassable. There is no cable service, no movie theatre, nor video rental outlet. Luckily, the new Julian Library now gives this isolated community a window on the world.
Julian residents use the Julian library’s video collection for both educational videos and feature films. In addition, the library’s 20 public-use computers provide students and residents access to a wide range of database resources available from the San Diego County Library network via the Internet.
At approximately 10,000 square feet, the Julian Branch is not the largest library in the state, but, says Marilyn Crouch, retired director of the San Diego County Library, of which Julian is a part, “it has a huge impact on both library services and the lives of the residents of Julian,” sixty percent of whom hold library cards. Located adjacent to the Julian elementary, middle, and high schools, the Julian Branch is a joint-use library with a homework center for the community’s students who previously had to use an un-staffed school library with only 2,000 volumes. Their new public library can house over 20,000 volumes and will let Julian’s youth do schoolwork without traveling to the nearest regional library over 55 miles away.
The new public library branch also offers study rooms, a community meeting room, and a Friends of the Library Bookstore.
Julian is an historic Gold Rush-era community, where many of the buildings still look as if they were built in the 1860’s. The new Julian Branch, located in Julian’s commercial center, reflects the historical, rural, and architectural elements of other buildings in the vicinity, including the 1888 schoolhouse in which the library was formerly housed. In fact, the new library’s cupola is an exact replica of the schoolhouse’s, providing a visual recollection of the library’s former home.
The Julian Branch is unique in other ways. It was among the first group of libraries funded from the California Reading and Literacy Improvement and Public Library Construction and Renovation Bond Act of 2000 (Bond Act of 2000) and was the first project to break ground. In September 2004 the Julian Branch Library became the first Bond Act-funded library in the state to open its doors to the public.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
Scenes from Picher - Gorilla Statue for the Picher High School Football team - 1A Oklahoma State Champions in 1984. Though Picher is now a ghost town, the gorilla remains...obviously quite lonely.
Picher, Oklahoma
Tuesday afternoon 31 January 2017
Picher, Oklahoma is a former mining town, considered a major center of lead and zinc mining in the early half of the 20th century, and had a peak population of 14,252 in 1926.
But with a decline in mining operations, the town's population declined as well. Mining ceased in the late 1960's, and the resulting effects on the land and water created a significant environmental problem for the town and area.
The most visible of these effects are the many large chat piles (large mounds of toxic and lead-contaminated waste pilings and dust as a result of mining activities) that surround Picher.
In 1980, Picher was designated a Superfund site - eventually the federal and state governments ordered the whole town evacuated and its residents relocated - one of only a handful of towns evacuated and declared uninhabitable due to environmental damage.
An EF4 tornado in 2008 caused significant damage to whatever was left of Picher at the time - and just accelerated the exodus.
The town was officially dissolved in November 2013.
And as of 2015, the official population of Picher is 0 (zero) - essentially making it a ghost town.
[Information obtained from Wikipedia - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picher,_Oklahoma]
madrid, new mexico
1975
miners' houses
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
I know this same shot is all over Flickr, but I couldn't resist.
Kern Photography Association (KPA) went to Randsburg, CA for our monthly Meet & Shoot. This is an old mining town out in the desert that is still hanging on my tooth & nail.
madrid, new mexico
1975
miner's house
(partial / beginning of roll)
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
Image-use requests are welcome via flickrmail or nickdewolfphotoarchive [at] gmail [dot] com
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
On the Nevada and Arizona boarder is El Dorado Canyon, at one time the richest gold mine in southern NV.
Love these two chairs at the Red Inn, in Alleghany, California. What I like about this photo is how the lights in the shadows play together here against the rustic building.
Images are from my February 8, 2007 trip to Oatman for a quick lunch. It was quite an eye-opener as it is a very old mining town that retains it's wild West character in a rugged setting in the mountains of the northwestern part of the state. It is a very successful tourist destination, and it's hard to get there from the winding mountain roads that are not well-maintained or improved.