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Shaniko, Oregon
Shaniko was a wool-shipping railroad town where passenger trains stopped by the early 1930s and the line closed in 1966. About thirty…
Murphy, Idaho
Silver City was a gold and silver town in the Owyhee Mountains that held about 2,500 people in the 1880s and served as the Owyhee County…
Leeds, Utah
Silver Reef was a silver-mining boomtown that grew from a camp founded in 1866 to some 2,000 people by 1879 and then faded as the mines…
Death Valley, California
Skidoo was a gold camp in the Panamint Range, active from 1906 to 1917, whose mill ran largely on water piped many miles from Telescope…
Lander, Wyoming
South Pass City boomed after gold was found in 1867 and 1868, reaching about 2,000 people in a year before a bust in 1872. Esther Hobart…
Helper, Utah
Spring Canyon above Helper in Carbon County was home to a string of coal-mining camps, including Storrs, Standardville, Peerless and…
St. Elmo, Colorado
St. Elmo was founded in 1880 as a silver and gold mining camp in the Sawatch Range, and by the 1890s its population approached 2,000, with…
Lordsburg, New Mexico
Steins was a Southern Pacific railroad and rock-crushing town that held as many as 1,300 people around 1910 before the railroad stopped…
Sumpter, Oregon
Dredge No. 3, the Sumpter Valley Gold Dredge, is a 1935 floating gold-mining machine that churned up the valley's gravels until 1954 and is…
Bouse, Arizona
Swansea was a copper town of about 500 people served by its own railroad from Bouse, and the post office closed in 1924. The American…
Terlingua, Texas
Terlingua was a quicksilver (mercury) mining town built around the Chisos Mining Company after cinnabar was found in 1884, with about 2,000…
Thistle, Utah
Thistle was a railroad town founded in 1883 that was buried in 1983 by a huge landslide which dammed the Spanish Fork River into a lake,…
Thurber, Texas
Thurber was a company coal town of roughly 8,000 to 10,000 people that issued its own scrip and also made paving bricks, and it collapsed…
Glen Jean, West Virginia
Thurmond was a coal and railroad town that became the single biggest revenue source on the Chesapeake & Ohio, with about fifteen passenger…
Telluride, Colorado
Tomboy was a gold and silver camp at 11,500 feet in Savage Basin, with a school, store, stables, miners' cabins, and even a YMCA and tennis…
Juneau, Alaska
The Treadwell mines on Douglas Island employed up to 2,000 people from 17 countries between 1882 and 1922, when part of the workings caved…
Elko, Nevada
Tuscarora grew after a Shoshone man told a trader about gold in 1867, and its mines have produced more than half a million ounces of gold…
Imlay, Nevada
Unionville was the first Humboldt County seat and held about 1,500 people in the 1860s boom. Mark Twain prospected here around 1862 and…
Granite, Colorado
Vicksburg is a preserved mining camp in Clear Creek Canyon, founded in 1867 when prospectors chasing lost burros found gold in the creek.…
McCall, Idaho
Warren began as Warren's Diggings after an 1862 gold find, and Chinese miners, who bought the claims and worked them profitably, were the…
Carrizozo, New Mexico
White Oaks boomed after gold and coal were found in 1879, with the Old Abe Mine and a population of up to about 2,500, and declined after…
Sumpter, Oregon
Whitney was a lumber town that grew around a mill and became the main station of the narrow-gauge Sumpter Valley Railway after it arrived…
Granite, Colorado
Winfield sprang up in 1881 after prospectors found gold flecks in the creek, reached about 1,500 people by 1890, and declined after the…
Baker Creek, Idaho
The Wood River mining district drew thousands of fortune hunters after silver-lead ore was discovered near Galena Summit in 1879, and Baker…