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Monte Cristo is a ghost town northwest of Monte Cristo Peak, in eastern Snohomish County in western Washington. The town was active as a mining area for gold and silver from 1889 to 1907, and later became a resort town that operated until 1983.
The Bodie Mine played an historically important part of the Okanogan gold rush. Founded by Henry Dewitz after the Northern Colville Reservation was opened for mining in 1896. The Bodie Mine was started in 1897 to mine a block of five patented claims (Bodie, Bodie #2, West Cliff, Crystal Bluff, and Little George).
A small town part of Broughten Lumber Company. Lester: King: 1891 or 1892 About 1984 Demolished/barren Levey Franklin: Liberty [1] [5] Kittitas: 1873 After 1960 Historic Abandoned gold mining town associated with an 1873 gold rush. Liberty Bond: Klickitat: Between Appleton and Glenwood Around 1930s A former logging camp and town Lindberg: Lewis
The Mount Baker gold rush (1897 to mid 1920s) occurred in Whatcom County, Washington, United States, upon the discovery of the Lone Jack Mine.The Mount Baker area was flooded with prospectors which led to the staking of many claims both patented and unpatented.
Republic's prominence, initially brought on by the gold rush, started to fade as prospectors and those who supported the mining industry moved away. During the years between 1900 and 1910, the town lost over half its population.
The Klondike Gold Rush [n 1] was a migration by an estimated 100,000 prospectors to the Klondike region of Yukon in northwestern Canada, between 1896 and 1899. Gold was discovered there by local miners on August 16, 1896; when news reached Seattle and San Francisco the following year, it triggered a stampede of prospectors.
In 1879 substantial amounts of gold were found in the creek, leading to its first mining claim "Nip and Tuck" and with it the start of the first gold rush in the North Cascades. [6] In excess of 600 claims were filed, and between several hundred and 2,500 people worked the creek, however low profitability ended most mining by the fall of 1880.
Chesaw is an unincorporated community in Okanogan County, Washington. Chesaw was named for the Chinese settler Chee Saw, who arrived in the mid-1890s and married a Native American woman. [2] The town sprang up and thrived during a brief gold rush from 1896 to 1900. [2] Chesaw now hosts an annual rodeo held every 4th of July.