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Mineral Historic District is a national historic district located at Mineral, Louisa County, Virginia. It encompasses 222 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites, and 6 contributing structures in the town of Mineral. It includes a variety of residential, commercial, and institutional buildings built after the town was platted in 1890.
Mineral City was a steamboat landing and ferry crossing on the Colorado River in La Paz County, Arizona, United States from 1863 to 1866. It was located on the east bank of the Colorado River, one mile below its rival Olive City and 1 ⁄ 2 mile below the original site of Ehrenberg and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 miles above its current site.
The town was founded no later than 1897 on the shore of Mineral Lake, adopting the name from the lake and the veins of ruby of arsenic in the region. The area was referred to as Mineral City and Mineral Creek in its early days. [4] [5] The lake was originally known as Round Top Lake and also as Goldsboro Lake. [3] [6] Mineral, Washington, 1910
Around 1886, coal was discovered in the area, and two mining companies laid out Mineral City to house workers. [1] It briefly became a boomtown, with 2 or 3 general stores, a saloon, a blacksmith shop, and a population of about 100. [1] The town had the only post office in the Cimarron County vicinity prior to 1890. [2]
As the train tracks were laid north of the coal mining area, so brought the formation of the town of Mineral. The town of Mineral was platted in 1857 and soon developed several small stores and a population of 300 to 350 residents. A school was erected in 1870, with the town's first graduating high school class being the class of 1894, with ...
The town site consisted of 15 blocks, and was located in the Anna Quartz mining claim. [11] At its peak, it had 2 hotels, 2 saloons and 2 stores. After a 1980 storm, a quarter-mile (0.4 km) length of the ridge between Galena and Mineral City collapsed, washing out the road. The route remains impassable by vehicles. [12]
Ruby is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, United States. It was founded as a mining town in Bear Valley , originally named Montana Camp, so named because the miners were mining at the foot of Montana Peak.
The Esmeralda vein, the discovery outcrop of the Aurora Mining District Aurora after 1910, when the town was first connected to electrical power.. Aurora is a ghost town in Mineral County in the west central part of the US state of Nevada, approximately 22 mi (35 km) southwest of the town of Hawthorne, three miles from the California border.