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Independence, Colorado
Independence is a gold-camp ghost town in a meadow at the western foot of Independence Pass. Prospectors reportedly struck gold here on…
Palmer, Alaska
Independence Mine was a hard-rock gold camp at the top of Hatcher Pass that began with Robert Hatcher's 1906 claim and ramped up in 1938,…
Grantsville, Utah
Iosepa was founded in 1889 for Hawaiian members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who had been mistreated in Salt Lake…
Ouray, Colorado
Ironton was a mining-camp junction on the Ouray side of Red Mountain Pass where the railroad and wagon roads met, with roughly a thousand…
Riverton, Wyoming
Jeffrey City was a uranium boom town built from 1957 for mine workers, with a high school and swimming pool, and it shrank to 58 people by…
Chester, Illinois
Kaskaskia was Illinois's first capital, settled in 1703 and capital of the territory and then the state until 1820, when the seat moved to…
Keeler, California
Keeler was a silver-shipping town on Owens Lake, founded as Hawley and later renamed for a mill owner, and its lake steamer and zinc…
Kelso, California
Kelso grew around a Union Pacific depot where helper engines were added for the steep grade, and it faded after passenger service ended in…
Lewistown, Montana
Kendall was a gold town that thrived from 1901 to 1912 after a cyanide mill opened in 1900, peaking at about 1,500 people and declining…
McCarthy, Alaska
Kennecott was the centre of a copper empire until the ore ran out and the mill town was abandoned almost overnight in 1938, leaving…
Hillsboro, New Mexico
Kingston began as Percha City in 1882 after a silver strike, was renamed for the Iron King mine, and may have held around 7,000 people…
Meeteetse, Wyoming
Kirwin was a gold and silver camp near Spar Mountain that reached about 200 people in some 38 buildings in the 1890s and banned saloons and…
Knights Ferry, California
Knights Ferry grew up around a ferry crossing on the Stanislaus River during the Gold Rush, and its 1863 covered bridge, a National…
Hillsboro, New Mexico
Lake Valley was a silver boomtown of up to a few thousand people after a late-1870s strike that emptied when the federal government dropped…
Cle Elum, Washington
Liberty grew after gold was found on Swauk Creek in 1873, with a school, hotel, post office and stores in the 1890s, and it was listed on…
Bartlett, New Hampshire
Livermore was a logging town of about 150 to 200 people in the White Mountains, with a post office, school, store, power plant and mansion…
Grand Lake, Colorado
Lulu City was a short-lived silver camp in the Kawuneeche Valley, built in 1880 and named for a founder's daughter, then abandoned by about…
Helena, Montana
Marysville grew after Tommy Cruse found gold on Silver Creek in 1876 and held about 3,000 people in the 1880s and 1890s around the…
Bannack, Montana
The Meade Hotel is the best-known building in Bannack, Montana's first territorial capital and now a state park ghost town. The brick…
Stevenson Ranch, California
Mentryville was an oil boomtown in Pico Canyon and is now a park with the Mentry family's restored 13-room mansion, a one-room schoolhouse…
Tooele, Utah
Mercur was a mining town in the Oquirrh Mountains, first for silver, then for mercury and cinnabar, and finally for gold after a cyanide…
Lander, Wyoming
Miner's Delight was founded in 1868, the year gold was found, as Hamilton City, one of Wyoming's first communities, and its mine shut in…
Glenwood, New Mexico
Mogollon was a gold and silver camp after a soldier's 1870 discovery, with several thousand residents at its peak and mining that continued…
Granite Falls, Washington
Monte Cristo was founded in 1893 after a gold and silver strike in 1889 and served by a railroad built to haul ore to Everett, but…