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Earlimart, California
Allensworth was founded in 1908 by Lieutenant Colonel Allen Allensworth, who was born enslaved and became the highest-ranking Black officer…
Animas Forks, Colorado
Animas Forks was established in 1875 at 11,200 feet in the San Juan Mountains, between present-day Silverton and Lake City, and grew…
Ashcroft, Colorado
Ashcroft began in 1880 as a silver camp eleven miles up the Castle Creek valley from Aspen, and briefly rivaled its now-famous neighbor…
Lander, Wyoming
Atlantic City was founded in 1868, as the gold rush was fading, and survives as a small, still-inhabited semi-ghost town in the Wind River…
Trona, California
Ballarat was founded in 1896 or 1897 as a supply town for the gold mines of the Panamint Range, and was named by an Australian settler for…
Dillon, Montana
Bannack is a National Historic Landmark and the site of Montana's first major gold discovery, in July 1862, and it served as the first…
Hammonton, New Jersey
Batsto was a Pine Barrens iron-and-glass village founded around 1766 whose furnace supplied munitions to the Continental Army and whose…
Challis, Idaho
Bayhorse was a silver camp whose smelters were fed by charcoal made in its kilns, some of the best-preserved in Idaho. Listed on the…
Belmont, Nevada
Belmont is a mining ghost town in Nye County where the brick courthouse, built in 1876, still stands in a state historic site. Ghost…
Gabbs, Nevada
Berlin was a small gold and silver camp of a couple of hundred people that was mostly abandoned by 1911, and it is now preserved in…
Antioch, California
Five coal-mining towns stood on this ground from the 1860s, and Sarah Norton was midwife to them. A Canadian immigrant, widowed and then…
Cashmere, Washington
Blewett was a mining town of about 300 miners on Peshastin Creek, called Werner in 1893 and renamed for Seattle mine owner Edward Blewett;…
Bodie, California
Prospector W. S. Bodey found gold here in 1859, and by around 1880 Bodie had become one of the West's roughest boomtowns, with several…
Bombay Beach, California
Bombay Beach was a 1950s resort town on the Salton Sea that emptied as rising salinity, flooding and fish die-offs drove residents away.…
Sumpter, Oregon
Bourne was a gold-mining camp originally called Cracker City, renamed for Oregon senator Jonathan Bourne Jr., whose nearby mines produced…
Cerro Gordo, California
Cerro Gordo, high in the Inyo Mountains above Owens Valley, was one of California's richest silver camps in the 1870s: a town of saloons…
Wallace, Idaho
Burke sits in a canyon only about 300 feet wide where a railroad once ran through the lobby of the Tiger Hotel. Founded around 1887 for…
Yermo, California
Calico was a silver-mining boomtown in the 1880s; Walter Knott restored it and donated it to San Bernardino County, which runs it as a…
Leadville, Colorado
Camp Hale was built in 1942 to train the Army's 10th Mountain Division in skiing and mountain warfare before they fought in Italy, and it…
Hawthorne, Nevada
Candelaria was a silver camp of up to about 3,000 people whose lack of water had to be solved by hauling it in by rail, and the dry-milling…
Lake City, Colorado
Capitol City was developed in 1877 by George S. Lee, who platted a large townsite and built a brick "governor's mansion" in the hope the…
Medicine Bow, Wyoming
Carbon was the first coal town in Wyoming, founded in 1868 on the Union Pacific line, and was emptied after the last mine closed in 1902…
Nederland, Colorado
Caribou was a silver-mining town on a windswept ridge near the Continental Divide, founded after a rich silver strike in 1869 and abandoned…
Yuma, Arizona
Castle Dome's mines were worked from the 1860s until 1979, making them some of Arizona's longest-worked claims, and the nearby landing…