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Abandoned [2] Burgdorf: Idaho County: 1860s Before 1945 Semi-abandoned Burke: Shoshone County: 1887 1991 Semi-abandoned A mining town that closed after several natural disasters. Caribou City: 1897 1930 [citation needed] Chesterfield: Caribou County: 1879 After 1928 A former Mormon settlement, now open to the public as a tourist attraction. [3 ...
Sawtooth City (also Sawtooth) is an abandoned mining camp in Blaine County, Idaho, United States.Located at (43.8965718, -114.8403490), it sits at an altitude of 7,342 feet (2,238 m), along Beaver Creek near its confluence with the Salmon River in the Sawtooth Valley of Sawtooth National Recreation
The Silver City Historic District is a historically significant mining area in northwestern Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. [1] It includes the abandoned town of Silver City and numerous nearby towns, mines, and mining remains, covering approximately 16 square miles (41 km 2).
Old mines pose myriad dangers, with 381 people killed and 152 injured at abandoned mine sites nationwide between 2000 and 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. Victims can fall into hidden shafts, get lost in underground tunnels or perish from poisonous gases present in many old coal mines.
Usually the mines are said to contain valuable elements or minerals such as gold, silver or diamonds. Often there is a map or other document allegedly detailing the history or location of the mine. Common to all the lost mine legends is the idea of a valuable and mysterious resource being lost to history.
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(The Center Square) – Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost filed a $17 million lawsuit Tuesday against a northern Ohio company that dates back six decades. The lawsuit says the United States Gypsum ...
The Birch Creek Charcoal Kilns are a group of beehive-shaped clay charcoal kilns near Leadore, Idaho, built in 1886. They were listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972. The kilns were built in 1886 to produce charcoal to fuel the smelter at Nicholia, which smelted lead and silver ore from the Viola Mine about 10 miles east of ...