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Savage Mining Company Office and Mine/Mill
Virginia City, Nevada This magnificent 21-room Second Empire style building was constructed by the Savage Mining Company in 1861. The ornate building is an excellent example of the architectural elegance associated with the offices and residences of the mining elite. The top two floors of the building served as the mine superintendent’s residence, while the ground floor was the mine office. The building has been restored with attention to its distinctive architectural features, such as the mansard roof, dormer windows and delicate gingerbread trim. The interior boasts 14-foot-high ceilings, a seven-foot copper bathtub, a Lincrista frieze in the main hallway and early Victorian furnishings. Ulysses S. Grant is said to…
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Virginia City Spite House
As the story goes, there were two miners in Virginia City, Nevada who were sworn enemies. After one miner bought a plot of land and built a small white house with lots of windows so he could enjoy the sun and warm breezes, the other miner decided to exact his revenge by buying the property next door, and moving his already-built red cottage just inches from the other miner’s home. Across the street from Anabelle’s House. Photo copyrighted Steve Knight photo
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Golden Gate Mine, Coleville CA
Boardinghouse and 10 stamp mill. Thanks Tami and Ralph, another great ghost town day! Note. This all burned to the ground weeks later in the Slinker Fire. Nothing left except tin roofing and iron artifacts from the stamp mill. See my later post to see the destruction. (Link)
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Benton Hot Springs, California
Information and description courtesy of Wikipedia- Benton Hot Springs got its start around 1863 with the discovery of silver in the nearby Blind Springs Hills and along the White Mountains.The Benton post office opened at the place in 1886. The name honors Senator Thomas Hart Benton, United States senator from Missouri and Father in Law to Explorer John C. Frémont. The town saw its heyday from 1862 to 1889 as a supply center for nearby mines.In 1883, a railroad line was completed to Benton Station and soon train service was initiated to Laws Station, located several miles east of Bishop Creek. One of the oldest surviving towns in Mono County,…
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Route 66 – Near Peach Springs, AZ
Gas Stations That Time Forgot When travel was an adventure! No air condition, day sleeping motels, and small town to small town for food, fuel, tires and repairs.
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Mayflower Mill/Mine
From the well-preserved Mayflower Mill just north of Silverton, across the Animas River, and up into Arrastra Gulch, threads a still-standing mile long aerial tramline, complete with swinging ore buckets suspended in time to the mine 2,500 feet above the mill —all that remains of one of Silverton’s greatest mining operations of the 20th century. Original photos Copyright © Steve Knight Photo
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San Bernardino Ranch, AZ
John Slaughter Ranch The Sheriff of Tombstone, Cochise County after Wyatt Earp 17 miles East of Douglas Arizona along dirt road paralleling boarder with Mexico In 1884, John Horton Slaughter, a cowboy and lawman originally from Texas, purchased 65,000 acres (26,000 ha) from Perez’s heirs for approximately $80,000. Two-thirds of his property lay in Mexico, with the remaining third in the Arizona Territory. There are ruins on the property now owned by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service where a Mormon employee of Slaughter’s built a home (called the Mormon House) straddling the U.S.–Mexico border so he could keep a wife in the United States and a wife in…
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Como, Nevada
June 2012 (Requested by Tami Force) The Ore Stamps and other parts of the mill were moved to Berlin State Park many years ago. From Wikipedia: Gold was found in the Pine Nut Mountains of western Nevada, and in June 1860, the Palmyra mining district was created. The town of Como was established in late 1862, during the gold rush in Palmyra Mining District. Two bills were under consideration in December, 1862, by the Nevada Territorial legislature in Carson City, to build a toll road from Carson City to Como. One of the bills was approved on December 18, 1862, providing an act chartering a toll road from Como to…
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Donovan-Dazet-Jackson Stamp Mill
(1890) 30 stamp mill Silver City, NV Cynide process refinery and blacksmith shop. Being lovingly restored by the Comstock Foundation. Open to the public for tours! For tours contact: Steve@comstockfoundation.org
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“Wickedest Town in the West” Jerome, AZ
Located near the top of Cleopatra Hill between Prescott and Flagstaff is the historic copper mining town of Jerome, Arizona. Once known as the wickedest town in the west, Jerome was born a copper mining camp, growing from a settlement of tents into a roaring mining community.After its founding in 1876, Jerome was at one time the fourth largest city in Arizona with the population peaking at around 15,000 in the 1920’s. The Great Depression slowed the mining operation and the claim eventually went to Phelps Dodge, who still holds the claim to this day. World War II greatly increased the demand for copper, but after the war demand decreased…
