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White Sulphur Springs, Montana
Castle Town, named for the rock turrets above it, was a silver camp that after about 1882 held up to a couple of thousand people, with a…
Waynesville, North Carolina
Cataloochee was a farming and apple-growing valley of about 1,200 people in 1910, and families were displaced when the national park was…
Centralia, Pennsylvania
Centralia was a coal town whose underground mine fire began in May 1962 when a trash fire in a pit ignited the old mine workings. By the…
Chinese Camp, California
Chinese Camp was a Gold Rush town settled by Chinese miners and later a stage stop, and it is California Historical Landmark 423.…
Chloride, Arizona
Chloride is said to be Arizona's oldest continuously occupied mining town, with silver mined from the 1870s and a major mine, the…
Winston, New Mexico
Chloride sprang up in 1880 after Harry Pye found silver, and it had nine saloons and two hotels before the 1893 panic collapsed silver…
Cisco, Utah
Cisco began in the 1880s as a water stop and saloon for the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad and sheared as many as 100,000 sheep a…
Columbia, California
Columbia was one of the richest Gold Rush towns and is now one of the best-preserved, with more than thirty restored buildings, a…
Polaris, Montana
Coolidge was a mining camp built in 1914 by the Boston-Montana company around the Elkhorn Mine and mill, named for Calvin Coolidge, and it…
Halfway, Oregon
Cornucopia grew after Lon Simmons found gold in 1884 and had at least 500 men by 1885, with the Last Chance, Queen of the West,…
Marble, Colorado
Crystal is a small mining-camp ghost town high on the Crystal River, best known for the weathered Crystal Mill, a timber powerhouse perched…
Stanley, Idaho
Custer was founded in 1879 after gold strikes on the Yankee Fork and had about 600 residents in 1896, then emptied as the last major mine…
Petersham, Massachusetts
Dana was one of four Swift River Valley towns disincorporated and flooded around 1938 to 1939 to create Quabbin Reservoir for Boston's…
Darwin, California
Darwin grew after silver and lead strikes in the Coso Range in 1874, with smelters, mines and hundreds of residents, and it stayed active…
Dawson, New Mexico
Dawson Cemetery, on the site of the vanished coal-mining town of Dawson near Cimarron, holds the graves of hundreds of miners killed in two…
Wiggins, Colorado
Dearfield was founded in 1910 by Oliver Toussaint Jackson as a Black agricultural colony and became Colorado's largest Black homesteading…
Caliente, Nevada
Delamar was a gold town named for Captain John Delamar, who bought the claims in 1893, and reached over 3,000 residents. Silica dust from…
Gloucester, Massachusetts
Hikers in Dogtown describe uneasy feelings and unexplained sounds, and the woods are wrapped in stories of witches: Thomazine "Tammy"…
Tomkins Cove, New York
Doodletown was a hamlet of about 300 people in a valley of the Hudson Highlands that was settled in the 1760s by loggers and miners,…
Skagway, Alaska
Dyea was the port where Klondike gold seekers landed to climb the Chilkoot Trail in 1897 and 1898, then emptied after the White Pass…
Eagle Nest, New Mexico
Elizabethtown, called E-Town, began in 1866 after gold was found in Willow Creek near Baldy Mountain and reportedly held several thousand…
Boulder, Montana
Elkhorn was a silver-mining town whose two best-known buildings, the 1880s Gillian Hall and the 1893 Fraternity Hall with its distinctive…
Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Elkmont began as a logging camp of the Little River Lumber Company and became a summer resort of private cabins and clubhouses for wealthy…
Eureka, Utah
Eureka grew from the Tintic Mining District after silver was found in 1869, and its Main Street is lined with empty brick buildings that…