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Gold Rush era
Bodie, California
Est. 1859 · State Historic Park
Silver rush
Rhyolite, Nevada
1904–1916
Copper mining
Jerome, Arizona
1876–1953
Coal mining
Thurmond, W. Virginia
1873–1980s
Gold Rush
Bannack, Montana
Est. 1862
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Berlin, Nevada
Berlin is two ghost towns in one canyon: a company-owned silver camp left to decay when the mine closed around 1911, and — in the same Shoshone Range — a...
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