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Photo of mine remains at Golden West, South Dakota Gold Hill: Lawrence: According to Parker and Lambert's Black Hills Ghost Towns, the location of Gold Hill was described as being laid out in 1877 on Whitewood Creek, at the mouth of the Reno Creek, about 3 miles (4.8 km) above Kirk. Gopher: Corson: 1918-1940s? Barren
Pages in category "Ghost towns in South Dakota" The following 76 pages are in this category, out of 76 total. ... Mystic, South Dakota; N. Nahant, South Dakota; Novak ...
The population of the area was estimated to be around 300 to 400 in the early 1880s, but this estimate is most likely too low. Some of the mining companies in the area were the Dacy, Deadwood Standard, Eva H. & Silver Tongue, Eagle Bird, American Mining Company, Ulster, Old Ironsides, Victoria, Metallic Streak, and Spearfish Gold Mining and ...
The tracks were not uncovered until around 1974, when Lead and Deadwood, two neighboring towns, began to use the tailings to sand icy roads during winter. The mines eventually shut down and the town was completely abandoned. More than 80% of the town has sunk into the caving tunnels below, and the rest are only foundations. [3]
The town later boasted a physician, assayer, notary, shoemaker, two hotels, two saloons, another livery yard, an opera house, a tin shop, and two more sawmills. Two railroad lines were built to Galena from Deadwood and sparked more growth. Three newspapers ran in the area: the Daily Times, the Pioneer, and the News. One July, a fire swept ...
Tinton is a ghost town in the Black Hills of Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. Founded in 1876, it started out as a gold mining camp and later began to produce tin . It had a heavy decline in the early 20th century due to the decline in the mining industry, and the town was fully abandoned by the 1950s. [ 3 ]
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Maitland, originally called Garden City and sometimes misspelled Midland, is a ghost town in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. It was a mining community that boomed during the Black Hills Gold Rush, but was abandoned by about 1915. [2] Today many parts of the area are residential and include Maitland Ridge and Paradise Acres ...