Mining towns often sprang up overnight across the U.S. during the gold, silver and even copper rushes, creating dramatic tales of fortune, greed, sudden ruin, sickness and even death.

Other, lesser-known towns were often just as raucous as Tombstone and Deadwood. Jerome, Arizona, for example, was once called "the wickedest town in the West" because of its proliferation of bars, ...

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Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be seen on the same streets. Today, many of these towns lean on their ...

Ohio's ODNR and local groups start a $2.8 million project to revitalize Glouster, turning it into a business and recreation ...