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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 ...
The crew (along with two horses) entered the mine opening near the bank of Placer Creek just as the fire engulfed the area. [2] [3] [5] The mine was actually a short prospecting tunnel that had been abandoned because no ore was found there. The mine opening was 6 feet (1.8 m) high and 5 feet (1.5 m) wide.
Location of Washington County in Idaho. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Idaho. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington County, Idaho, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided ...
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).
Small-scale mining continued off and on until World War II; the last mine to be operated all year round in Silver City was the "Potossi," managed by Ned Williams. By the 1940s, there was only one permanent resident, Willie Hawes (1876–1968), who was born in town and was its mayor, police chief, fire chief, postman, etc. [ 3 ]
Burke Canyon is the canyon of the Burke-Canyon Creek, which runs through the northernmost part of Shoshone County, Idaho, U.S., within the northeastern Silver Valley.A hotbed for mining in the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Burke Canyon now contains several ghost towns and remnants of former communities along Idaho State Highway 4, which runs northeast through the narrow canyon to ...
Other mines soon began production throughout the Coeur d'Alene mining district, including the Bunker Hill Mine (1886), Star-Morning Mine (1887), Sunshine Mine (1890), Galena Mine (1922) and Lucky Friday Mine (1942).
That was the name the town had when the Washington territorial legislature made it the seat of Idaho County on December 20, 1861. [11] By the time winter took hold, the camp reportedly held nearly two thousand men. [12] [13] Unfortunately, the winter of 1861–1862 "proved to be one of the coldest in the history of Idaho." No one knows how many ...