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Eagle City is a ghost town located in Garfield County, Utah, United States. Nestled in Bromide Basin, high in the remote Henry Mountains of southern Utah, it was a gold mining camp. Eagle City was settled circa 1890, but was almost abandoned by the start of World War I. A single resident remained until the 1970s.
These books have many other ghost towns not on this list: Thompson, George A. (November 1982). Some Dreams Die: Utah's Ghost Towns and Lost Treasures. Salt Lake City: Dream Garden Press. ISBN 0-942688-01-5. Carr, Stephen L. (1986) [June 1972]. The Historical Guide to Utah Ghost Towns (3rd ed.). Salt Lake City: Western Epics.
This category includes ghost towns in the U.S. state of Utah Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ghost towns in Utah . Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap
A small gold rush began, peaking about 1873; the population reached as high as 2000. [2] During the mid-1870s, silver boomed, and silver mines were opened and quartz mills to process the ore were built. A million dollars worth of silver bullion was shipped down the valley, but the ore quickly gave out, and Lewiston became a ghost town by 1880.
Like many Old West ghost towns, St. Elmo produced both silver and gold mines. However, in just 40 years, the mining industry there began to decline, and once the railroad stopped running in 1922 ...
Silver Reef is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States, about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of St. George and 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Leeds.Silver Reef was established after John Kemple, a prospector from Nevada, discovered a vein of silver in a sandstone formation in 1866.
A short-lived gold placer mining camp existed here in the 1860s, [2] but the area was first settled by a prospector named Doby Brown in the late 1870s or early 1880s. By 1882 enough settlers had gathered to establish a post office. [3] In 1888 when a local gold rush began at nearby Miners Basin, Castleton became important as a supply town. [2]
Ajax is a ghost town located in the Rush Valley area of southeastern Tooele County, Utah, United States. The town grew up around a unique department store started in 1869 [1] by a Welsh immigrant named William Ajax. He operated the Ajax Underground Store until his death in 1899, and the settlement came to an end as the other residents left by 1900.