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Abandoned settlements and mines. · **10 Likes**

I could not find a recent thread on this subject. There are hundreds of abandoned mines, ghost towns etc. across the country and especially here in the west. Some you can drive right up to and some you need serious off road capability. I have many pictures of such places, taken with my bridge camera or phone, before I returned to the Pentax fold in December.
I will start this off with a picture I took with my new (to me) K-3 a couple of weeks ago.
It is an abandoned settlement and gas station in the Union Pass between Kingman & Bullhead city Arizona. It was homesteaded in 1897 by Jonathan Draper Richardson and his wife Victoria, on the site of an old army post. They ran this until their death in 1935 and 1940. The business was operated by their descendants until it was bypassed by the new highway 68 in the late nineteen eighties.
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mkgd1 · 08-22-2020, 11:19 AM

Cisco Utah was a water stop on the transcontinental railroad, became a center for local sheep farmers and for a while an oil boom town. The trains do not stop now and the population is down to 4 .

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mkgd1 · 08-22-2020, 11:38 AM - **1 Like**

Butch Cassidy's boyhood home, Circleville UT.

**pichaser** · 08-22-2020, 12:42 PM - **1 Like**

I am glad to see old locales so well depicted .

mkgd1 · 08-23-2020, 11:57 AM

Halfway stage coach station between Moab and Green River Utah. Abandoned when the rail spur was built between the two towns.

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**RICHARD L.** · 08-23-2020, 02:11 PM - **2 Likes**

Old San Juan Capistrano Mission's Archway and Gardens, California

Chapel, San Juan Capistrano Mission, California

Scotty's Castle, Death Valley Nat'l Park, California

The Mittens, Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah Stateline

**pichaser** · 08-23-2020, 02:39 PM

Very interesting series thanks .

mkgd1 · 08-24-2020, 05:17 PM

Gold mill, Bullion Canyon Marysvale UT.

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mkgd1 · 08-24-2020, 06:14 PM - **2 Likes**

The most important building in a mining camp.
Bullion Canyon Utah

mkgd1 · 08-24-2020, 08:35 PM

Abandoned grain silos Osiris Ghost town Utah

**RICHARD L.** · 08-25-2020, 06:02 AM - **1 Like**

San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, ARIZONA

San Juan Capistrano, CALIFORNIA

Details : San Juan Capistrano archway (left) and old wooden door at San Xavier del Bac (right)

mkgd1 · 08-25-2020, 04:58 PM

This miners cabin was in use from the nineteen twenties until the 2nd world war. Near Marysvale UT.

mkgd1 · 08-25-2020, 06:07 PM - **1 Like**

Pneumatic rock drill used for drilling holes for dynamite in mines. Bullion Canyon Utah.

**pichaser** · 08-25-2020, 08:20 PM - **1 Like**

My Cornish ancestors were miners but I fortunately didn't work the muck stick . This historic era deserves good photographic record . TFS

mkgd1 · 08-25-2020, 11:19 PM - **1 Like**

Originally posted by pichaser

My Cornish ancestors were miners but I fortunately didn't work the muck stick . This historic era deserves good photographic record . TFS

I grew up in a coal mining town in Yorkshire, several uncles were coal miners and most of the men in my wife's family. I also have a few "cousin Jacks" in my family tree. I never felt the desire to go down't pit myself. I do however find the history of mining fascinating.

mkgd1 · 10-24-2020, 04:39 PM

Mining equipment in Snake Creek Canyon. Great Basin NP.

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08-23-2020, 02:11 PM - 2 Likes	#80
RICHARD L. Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Quebec City, Quebec Posts: 6,653	The U.S. Southwest is full of Historical Buildings and Natural Features all over. Old San Juan Capistrano Mission's Archway and Gardens, California Chapel, San Juan Capistrano Mission, California Scotty's Castle, Death Valley Nat'l Park, California The Mittens, Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah Stateline Last edited by RICHARD L.; 08-23-2020 at 02:18 PM.

08-25-2020, 06:02 AM - 1 Like	#85
RICHARD L. Loyal Site Supporter Join Date: Oct 2018 Location: Quebec City, Quebec Posts: 6,653	Old Spanish Missions, Arizona and California (San Xavier and San Juan). San Xavier del Bac, Tucson, ARIZONA San Juan Capistrano, CALIFORNIA Details : San Juan Capistrano archway (left) and old wooden door at San Xavier del Bac (right)

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mkgd1 Pentaxian Join Date: Dec 2019 Location: Mohave county Arizona Photos: Albums Posts: 1,076 Original Poster	Originally posted by pichaser My Cornish ancestors were miners but I fortunately didn't work the muck stick . This historic era deserves good photographic record . TFS I grew up in a coal mining town in Yorkshire, several uncles were coal miners and most of the men in my wife's family. I also have a few "cousin Jacks" in my family tree. I never felt the desire to go down't pit myself. I do however find the history of mining fascinating.

Landscape Abandoned settlements and mines.

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