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Calico, an old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during the largest silver strike in California

Calico, an old West mining town that has been around since 1881 during...

Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. With its 500 mines, Calico produced over $20 million in silver ore over a 12-year span. When silver lost its value in the mid-1890's, Calico lost its popu... More

Scene in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Scene in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town...

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley. Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Scene at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

Scene at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surroundin...

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, who formerly obtained a livelihood from the lumber industry

Stranded residents of Careyville, Florida, who formerly obtained a liv...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, but almost all the houses stand empty. The people scattered

Careyville, northern Florida. A few colored families still live here, ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Hicks Hotel and Store, Rush Road, Yellville, Marion County, AR

Hicks Hotel and Store, Rush Road, Yellville, Marion County, AR

2016 HALS Challenge Entry: Documenting National Register Listed Landscapes Significance: The Hicks Hotel and Store site is a ten-acre property within the Rush Historic District, a former zinc mining community t... More

Old degenerating structure that later apparently served some artistic purpose in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

Old degenerating structure that later apparently served some artistic ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluster... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

An 1890s-vintage cemetery in Lajitas, a dusty, unincorporated town at the spot that separates Big Bend National Park and Big Bend Ranch State Park in southern Brewster County, Texas

An 1890s-vintage cemetery in Lajitas, a dusty, unincorporated town at ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Remnants of the once-prosperous copper-mining town of Jerome, Arizona

Remnants of the once-prosperous copper-mining town of Jerome, Arizona

Once known as the wickedest town in the west, Jerome grew from a settlement of tents to a roaring mining community in the late 19th Century. Founded in 1876, Jerome was once the fourth largest city in the Arizo... More

Old building in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Old building in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a gho...

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley. Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remnant at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of an old silo or water tower, now a graffiti-covered remn...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

What's left of the old outdoor pool and bath house, now graffiti-covered remnants at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old outdoor pool and bath house, now graffiti-cover...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Careyville, northern Florida. The houses are deserted since the mill closed

Careyville, northern Florida. The houses are deserted since the mill c...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Old truck in Bodie, a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Colle... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Remnants of coke ovens at Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing nation's industrial revolution

Remnants of coke ovens at Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was once one ...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by England-born entrepreneur John Nuttall, the town became the focus of national attention in the 1920s when, in an effort kno... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Humboldt City, General View, Ghost Town, Humboldt City, Pershing, NV

Humboldt City, General View, Ghost Town, Humboldt City, Pershing, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-14-29 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lumber mill which is being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Lumber mill which is being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lumber mill which is being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Lumber mill which is being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Public domain photograph of a machine part, motor, equipment, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The lumber mill closed, the track is being torn up and the rails sent to Japan along with other scrap iron from the mill. Careyville, Florida

The lumber mill closed, the track is being torn up and the rails sent ...

Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is availabl... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

What's left of the old campground bath house, now a graffiti-covered remnant at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old campground bath house, now a graffiti-covered r...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

What's left of the old outdoor pool, now a graffiti-covered remnant, at the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old outdoor pool, now a graffiti-covered remnant, a...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Lumber mill being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Lumber mill being dismantled. Careyville, Florida

Picryl description: Public domain image of a power station, dam, electric generator, industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is l...

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley. Title, date and keywords based on information provided b... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Remains of an old structure in the Terilingua "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company, which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. (Quicksilver is a now little-unused term for the liquid metal mercury.) A Web site for the town speaks of "scenic downtown Terlingua, Texas, just a few exits past the end of the world." The dusty half-ghost, half-real town can be found on the road that connects Big Bend National Park with its state equivalent, Big Bend Ranch State Park, in southern Brewster County, Texas

Remains of an old structure in the Terilingua "ghost town," some of wh...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

A whimsical pedestrian-crossing sign in the "ghost town," some of which is still occupied and some of which consists of ruins of the Chisos quicksilver-mining company which operated from 1905 into the early 1940s, and the residences of those who worked there. Terlingua, Texas

A whimsical pedestrian-crossing sign in the "ghost town," some of whic...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Albany County, Wyoming

The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Alba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The pyramidal stone monument, which from a distance mimicks the rocky landscape, was designed by prominent American architect Henry Ho... More

The closed-for-business, 1929-vintage Salt Flat Cafe and bus stop along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

The closed-for-business, 1929-vintage Salt Flat Cafe and bus stop alon...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Salt Flat served as a stopping place for travelers using the new highway that connected El Paso, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico. The... More

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

The community church in tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in P...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

One of several vintage buildings at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

One of several vintage buildings at the Castle Dome City ghost town, o...

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the... More

Careyville, northern Florida. The mill closed down January 1, 1937 and the occupants of these houses were dispersed

Careyville, northern Florida. The mill closed down January 1, 1937 and...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Careyville, Florida. A sawmill village, abandoned after the closing of the mill

Careyville, Florida. A sawmill village, abandoned after the closing of...

Public domain photograph - historical image of Florida, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in Goshen County, Wyoming

Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... More

The 1892 powerhouse above the Crystal River in what is now the virtual ghost town (except for a handful of summer-only residents) of Crystal in Gunnison County, Colorado

The 1892 powerhouse above the Crystal River in what is now the virtual...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Often called the Crystal "mill," the building, atop a high outcropping, it used water power to create compressed air that drove an air... More

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Scene at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

Scene at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surroundin...

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the... More

Cabin porch at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

Cabin porch at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surr...

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the... More

Ramshackle building at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

Ramshackle building at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomt...

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the... More

Lumber mill being dismantled at Careyville, Florida

Lumber mill being dismantled at Careyville, Florida

Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, structure, works, 19th-20th century industrial revolution, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Careyville, northern Florida. The houses are deserted since the mill closed

Careyville, northern Florida. The houses are deserted since the mill c...

Picryl description: Public domain image of railway tracks, train station, railroad building, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in Goshen County, Wyoming

Structure in what is now (2015) mostly a ghost town, called Jay Em, in...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The site was a watering hole on the old Texas Trail, along which cowboys drove cattle to northern ranches and railheads from distant T... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Public domain photograph of rural California, dust bowl refugees, 1930s-1940s, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Albany County, Wyoming

The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Alba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The pyramidal stone monument, which from a distance mimicks the rocky landscape, was designed by prominent American architect Henry Ho... More

The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Albany County, Wyoming

The Ames Monument, erected in 1880 in a desolate stretch of rural Alba...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The pyramidal stone monument, which from a distance mimicks the rocky landscape, was designed by prominent American architect Henry Ho... More

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio County, Texas, near the Rio Grande River

A portion of tiny Shafter, an unincorporated community in Presidio Cou...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Though it has a dozen or so inhabitants, it is included among the State Historical Society's list of "ghost towns." The onetime silve... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Abandoned buildings and water tower in what is now a ghost town named Salt Flat along the road carrying U.S. Highways 62-180 near the New Mexico border in Hudspeth County, Texas

Abandoned buildings and water tower in what is now a ghost town named ...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Salt Flat served as a stopping place for travelers using the new highway that connected El Paso, Texas, and Carlsbad, New Mexico. The... More

Picturesque but slender road to Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing nation's industrial revolution

Picturesque but slender road to Nuttallburg, a ghost town that was onc...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by England-born entrepreneur John Nuttall, the town became the focus of national attention in the 1920s when, in an effort kno... More

Part of the restored tipple and conveyor structure at Nuttallburg, West Virginia, a ghost town that was once one of about 50 places that sprang up in the deep West Virginia forests along the New River in the late 1800s in response to America's voracious demand for coal in the heart of the growing nation's industrial revolution

Part of the restored tipple and conveyor structure at Nuttallburg, Wes...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Founded by England-born entrepreneur John Nuttall, the town became the focus of national attention in the 1920s when, in an effort kno... More

Castle Dome, the looming mesa that gives the nearby Castle Dome City ghost town its name. Once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

Castle Dome, the looming mesa that gives the nearby Castle Dome City g...

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to both the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some o... More

Cabin in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but close to a ghost town in remote Fremont County, Wyoming. The town is a small mining settlement in a gulch near South Pass, the famous route through the Rockies for Oregon and Mormon Trail emigrants. It was founded as a mining camp following the 1867 gold rush in the region. The town declined following the end of the placer gold rush in the early 1870s, but continued to exist as advances in mining technology allowed further extraction of gold

Cabin in Atlantic City; not the famous New Jersey resort for sure, but...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. From the 1960s until 1983, it was the location of a U.S. Steel iron ore mine. The town, accessible by gravel roads has a small cluste... More

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to reach) historic sites in Colorado

Crystal Mill, one of the most-photographed (though most difficult to r...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. The mill sits in what is now mostly a ghost town, whose few residents leave the area in the brutal winters of the High Rockies. The se... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California

Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mou...

Located about 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe, the town become a state historic park in 1962. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Jon B. Lovelace Collection of California P... More

What's left of the old "kamp" campground) headquarters building, a roadside-attraction remnant at what is now the isolated ghost town of Two Guns along old U.S. Highway 66 in northeastern Arizona

What's left of the old "kamp" campground) headquarters building, a roa...

On site there, too, was a small zoo featuring native Arizona animals, the brainstorm of Harry "Two Guns" Miller, who grew out his hair and took on the persona of "Chief Crazy Thunder" when he greeted visitors. ... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Bodie, General View, Bodie State Historic Park, Bodie, Mono County, CA

Significance: Bodie is a Registered National Historic Landmark, and California Historical Landmark #341. Placer gold was first discovered here in July, 1859 and a quartz vein was discovered in August, 1859; bu... More

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