Pozos was born in 1576 as a mining town and grew in fits and starts alongside half a dozen other boomtowns in the high, rugged central region that Mexicans call the Bajio.

The original town site, which was in the flat below the mines, began to disappear. Wood from many of the buildings was used in the upper town site or taken for use in other towns. The mill building ...

You’ve got kitschy rebuilt frontier towns where you can watch a gunfight re-enactment, buy homemade fudge and bribe the kids into dressing up for old-timey photos (Goldfield); creepy-cool mining ...

For now, the best way we can imagine Anaconda's mining past is by diving into historic records, passing down stories and salvaging old photography. By doing that we can get a small taste of what ...

Red Devil was built by mining almost 100 years ago, ... This old Alaska mining town is almost a ghost town. ... (Photo by Katie Basile/KYUK) The proposed mine requires a lot of infrastructure: ...

Photo credit: Arianne Brown . Once you get on the road, you will pass through the town where you will be welcomed with wonderfully preserved mine artifacts, old saloons and stores, as well as a ...

Historic California mining town plagued by arsenic gets ... community, on Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2022. (Photo by Watchara ... them are BLM crews who come to fence off old mining ...

Saddle up! These towns in Oregon exude the Old West atmosphere, alongside their rich history and culture that takes us back ...

The mining town of Rioturbio was established in the 1950s, and new homes were built to house mining families. Its population has decreased considerably over the years. Viejo and his wife, Ángela ...

Tales of the lawless West have always been a hit with tourists. Plenty of the "Old West" towns across the U.S. are more than happy to embrace their history and help visitors travel back in time to ...

Historic mining town plagued by arsenic gets ... Nov. 16, 2022. (Photo by Watchara ... Hall said the only folks who “bother” them are BLM crews who come to fence off old mining ...