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Garnet is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States.A thriving mining town in the 1890s, Garnet's population declined when local hard rock mines closed. The remaining buildings have been preserved and are open to visitors.
Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
The Garnet Range, highest point Old Baldy Mountain, elevation 7,511 feet (2,289 m), [1] is a mountain range northeast of Drummond, Montana in Powell County, Montana. A popular historic site, Garnet Ghost Town, is in the Garnet Range. Situated on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, the ghost town is the remnant of a mining settlement that was ...
Garnet, Montana Garnet was born during the gold rush of 1895 and home to nearly a thousand miners and homesteaders at its peak. ... The abandoned town remains important archaeologically because it ...
Garnet, Montana. Located on the dirt Garnet Range Road about an hour's drive east of Missoula, Garnet is a well-preserved mining town that dates back to the 1860s.
Coloma is a ghost town located in the area of the Garnet Range in Missoula County, Montana, United States. Little is known about the settlement, which appears to have been founded in 1893. Records of the period indicate high gold mining activity from 1896 onwards, with an estimated $200,000 to $250,000 in gold being extracted.
One of Nevada's largest ghost towns, Rhyolite was once the third-largest city in the state. Formed during the Gold Rush in 1904, it grew to be a bustling town of more than 10,000 people with an ...
Bearmouth is a former town located in Granite County, Montana, USA.It began as a trading post for the placer mining camps of Beartown, Garnet and Coloma, located in the hills north of Bearmouth in Granite County.