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Providence Bonanza King silver camp
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Old bottles
Coins and tokensAlso reported: Seated Liberty and Trade dollars, Indian Head cents, cartridge cases.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880-1892 silver company camp with later revivals
Company camp at the Bonanza King mine on the east slope of the Providence Mountains, which ran a 20-stamp mill, two stores and three saloons and produced $1.5 million by 1882. Layoffs, a 1885 mill fire and falling silver ended it, with the post office closing in 1892; the mine was reopened briefly in 1906, during World War I and in the 1920s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
mine shafts, steep slopes, remote
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