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| | | | | | Walhalla is a small town in Victoria, Australia, founded as a gold-mining community in early 1863 and at its peak home to around 2,500 residents. Today, the town has a population of fewer than 20 permanent residents, though it has a large proportion of houses owned as holiday properties. It attracts large numbers of tourists and is a major focus of the regional tourism industry. The towns name is taken from an early gold mine in the area, named for the German hall of fame, the Walhalla temple (V... |
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| | | | | | Goldstream Meadows is a neighbourhood in the city of Langford, on the northwest outskirts of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. The community is located just west of Langford Lake and the Trans-Canada Highway and adjacent to the river of the same name, which was the scene of a small gold rush in the 1860s. At the turn of the century, the Lubbe Hydroelectric Plant was operated near Goldstream and created electricity by running high pressure drinking water through a turbine. A powerline t... |
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| | | | | | Silver City is a ghost town in Owyhee County, Idaho, United States. At its height in the 1880s it was a gold and silver mining town with a population of around 2,500 and approximately 75 businesses. Silver City served as county seat of Owyhee County from 1867 to 1934. Today, the town has about 70 standing buildings, all of which are privately owned. Many of the owners are third- or fourth-generation descendants of the original miners. There are a handful of small businesses, but no gas or servic... |
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| | | | Ghost towns in Washington County, Utah, Populated places established in 1875, Mining communities in Utah, National Register of Historic Places listings in Washington County, Utah, Boot Hill cemeteries, 1875 establishments in Utah Territory, Hidden categories:, Coordinates on Wikidata, Wikipedia articles needing page number citations from August 2011, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, CS1 errors: dates, Commons category template with no category set, Commons category with page tit... | | 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. At first, geologists were uncertain about Kemples find because silver is not usually found in sandstone. In 1875, two bankers from Salt Lake City sent William Barbee to the site to stake mining claims. He staked ... |
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| | | | | | Harrisburg is a ghost town in Washington County, Utah, United States. Established as Harrisville in 1859, the town was flooded by the Virgin River in 1862, causing the residents to move farther up Quail Creek. Soon after, the towns name was changed to Harrisburg. By 1868, 200 people lived in Harrisburg; however, over the course of the next few years, floods, Native American raids, and a grasshopper plague caused people to relocate to the nearby towns of Leeds and Silver Reef. By 1895, Harrisburg... |
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| | | | | | Spring Canyon, also called Storrs, is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. In 1912, Jesse Knight purchased 1,600 acres of coal land and began developing a mine and a company town. Knight named the town Storrs, after the mine superintendent. The name of the town was changed to Spring Canyon in 1924. 1,000 tons of coal per day were mined from 1924 to 1943, and during World War II, coal production peaked at 2,000 tons of coal per day. By 1946, the need for coal diminished, and people... |
| | | | | | Winter Quarters is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Coal was discovered in the area in 1875, and later that year, the Pleasant Valley Coal Company began coal mining operations. A group of coal miners were delayed during an early winter storm in 1877, which led to the towns name of Winter Quarters. On May 1, 1900, an explosion in the Winter Quarters Number Four mine killed 200 miners. Despite the mine explosion, the coal mining operations remained active until 1922, when the op... |
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| | | | | | Standardville is a ghost town in Carbon County, Utah, United States. Standardville was established after coal was discovered in the area in 1912. The layout of the town was so well-planned, it became the standard for all mining towns to follow, which resulted in the town name of Standardville. In 1922, a group of striking miners killed a mine guard and wounded two miners before escaping. In 1930, 20 miners were killed in a mine explosion caused by carbon monoxide gas. In 1950, the mine shut down... |
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| | | | Historic districts in Montana, Populated places in Beaverhead County, Montana, Ghost towns in Montana, Populated places established in 1862, National Historic Landmarks in Montana, Former colonial and territorial capitals in the United States, Mining communities in Montana, Gold mines in the United States, Symbols of Montana, Buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Montana, 1862 establishments in Washington Territory, Hidden categories:, Coordinates on Wikidata, A... | | |
| | | | Populated places in Silver Bow County, Montana, Neighborhoods in Montana, Ghost towns in Montana, Hidden categories:, Articles lacking in-text citations from March 2014, All articles lacking in-text citations, Articles needing additional references from March 2014, All articles needing additional references, Articles with too few wikilinks from June 2014, All articles with too few wikilinks, Articles covered by WikiProject Wikify from June 2014, All articles covered by WikiProject Wikify, Copied... | | Melrose, Montana, once known as Camp Creek, had its early beginnings as a tiny stage stop along the Big Hole River that would eventually become a terminus for the railroad, a shipping and receiving point for the Hecla Consolidated Mining Company and Bryant Mining District, consisting of Hecla, Lion City, Greenwood, Norwood, and Glendale. The area along the Big Hole River was settled as early as 1870, three families shared the valley, Jefferson McCauley, John Stone and William Bowe. In 1875, Will... |
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| | | | | | Harshaw is a ghost town in Santa Cruz County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. The town was settled in the 1870s, in what was then Arizona Territory. Founded as a mining community, Harshaw is named after the cattleman-turned-prospector David Tecumseh Harshaw, who first successfully located silver in the area. At the towns peak near the end of the 19th century, Harshaws mines were among Arizonas highest producers of ore, with the largest mine, the Hermosa, yielding approximat... |
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| | | | Ghost towns in Arizona, Landmarks in Arizona, Former populated places in Cochise County, Arizona, San Pedro Valley, Visitor attractions in Cochise County, Arizona, Populated places established in 1881, 1881 establishments in Arizona Territory, Protected areas of Cochise County, Arizona, Bureau of Land Management areas in Arizona, Hidden categories:, Pages using citations with accessdate and no URL, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from September 2010, Coor... | | Fairbank is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, next to the San Pedro River. First settled in 1881, Fairbank was the closest rail stop to nearby Tombstone, which made it an important location in the development of southeastern Arizona. The town was named for Chicago investor Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank who partially financed the railroad, and was the founder of the Grand Central Mining Company, which had an interest in the silver mines in Tombstone. Today Fairbank is located within the San P... |
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| | | | | | The French Counts settled in St. Hubert, Saskatchewan which was located on Pipestone Creek, 14 kilometres (8.7 mi) south west of Whitewood, Saskatchewan. The French Counts of St Hubert stayed in the area between 1884 and the early 1900s, before World War I. St. Hubert is classified presently as an unincorporated area means there are five or more dwellings establishing a settlement, and the civic government is administered by the rural municipality of Silverwood No. 123. Dr. Rudolph Meyer was the... |
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| | | | | | Copano, Texas, or El Copano (Spanish) is a ghost town on the northwestern shore of Copano Bay in Refugio County. It is located 5 miles (8.0 km) north of present-day Bayside, on Copano Point. The port, which holds the distinction as the first in South Texas, was founded in the early 18th century by the Spanish, and named for the Copane Indians that resided in the area. Initially, it was used as a port by smugglers and pirates until 1785 when it was officially opened for use by the Spanish empire.... |
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| | | | | | Port Talbot was the name of a community located west of Port Stanley, about one hours drive south from London Ontario, Canada where Talbot Creek flows into Lake Erie. The village was the original commercial nucleus for the settlement which developed on 5,000 acres (20 km²) of land granted to Thomas Talbot in 1800 by the Crown along the northwestern shore of Lake Erie. The settlement was one of the most prosperous of its time in Upper Canada, noted for its good roads, with Talbot keeping out lan... |
| | | | | | Africville was a small community located on the southern shore of Bedford Basin, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. During the 20th century, the City of Halifax began to encroach on the southern shores of Bedford Basin, and gradually took over this community through municipal amalgamation. Africville was populated almost entirely by Black Nova Scotians from a wide variety of origins. Many of the first settlers were former slaves from the United States, Black Loyalists who were freed by the Crown d... |
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