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After you choose and research your town, make your own post on this page and include:

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After you choose and research your town, make your own post on this page and include:

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1. The name of the town
2. A picture of the event or town
3. A description of what was being mined there
4. A brief description of the town (how it functioned, what was there, population, etc.)

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I chose Oatman, Arizona which is now famous for wild donkeys roaming the city, however it started off as a boom town after they first discovered gold there. I was able to visit a couple of these mining sites while I was there which was neat because of their industrial sized drills and carts used to get into the mining shafts. Oatman didn't become a town until 1906 and there are currently 128 people that live there!

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I chose Miami Arizona which was popular for mining gold and silver and also included copper. During the 1880s the price of silver started dropping and the prices of copper started raising. Copper ore with 5% to over 50% was being mined from copper vain and pockets in the area surrounding Globe which wasn't in the area. Miami Arizona was found in 1907 when it was first developed by the Miami land. Around this time the town was a little more than just the idea on a sheet of paper. Only 800 people were living there by the time of 1910.

Jazmine Damian

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The town I chose is Goldroad which is now renamed Ghost Town. Many people mined gold and later they found silver which made them move on from the location. However, a few decades later they found gold there again. I visited this place during the summer and you can buy a train ticket and get on while they talk about the history of the place and there is one ride and sometimes there are gunfights. You can see the original town and visit the many shops there. There use to be a post office there in Goldroad in 1902-1925 and from 1937-1942. This place started becoming an attraction in 2020 meaning no one actually lives there.

Nae Meh

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This town is called Tombstone and silver is being mined there. The population is 1,400, The elivation 4,540. The Town was created 1879. There was a major fire that occured in June 22 1881 This took a big toll on the town.

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Miami, Arizona started mining in the 1870’s and had great demand for Silver and Gold until the 1880’s when copper prices began to rise. In 1906, demand for workers in mines increased so the need for housing, shopping, etc also increased alongside. As of right now there are 1,851 residents in Miami, Arizona.
~Aaron Mendoza

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I chose Contention City Arizona. Which the City was established on the San Pedro River to serve as a mill site for the nearby Contention and Grand Central mine. Contention City is also notable as the scene of a shootout between outlaw members of the Jack Taylor Gang and lawman John Slaughter. When Slaughter was elected sheriff of Cochise County in 1886, four members of the Jack Taylor Gang Manuel Robles, Geronimo Miranda, Fred Federico, and Nieves Deron were wanted by both the Mexican Rurales and Arizona law enforcement on charges of robbery and murder. Contention City suffered the fate of other silver towns in the area as the silver industry declined, and was mostly abandoned by 1890.

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I chose Tombstone, Arizona. It is known for mining silver, which caused many people to move to the town. This made the population increase. When the people got there, they were living in tents and canvas buildings. The current population is only about 1,400 people but the peak population is 10,000.

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The town i chose was Jerome, Arizona and was founded in the late 19th century. The town was popular because there was copper mines and at one point had a population of more than 10,000 people. But now its a ghost town and has become a national historic landmark and tourist attraction.

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mineral park was founded in 1871 and the minerals that were being mined were silver and gold, the mines were very rich and mineral park started to grow quickly becoming the county seat by 1873             mineral park started to grow during the half of the 1800's but in 1887 the mines were in decline and it continued to do so until 1912 when they finally decided to close it , and the county seat was moved to the rapidly growing railroad hub of Kingman.
-EDWARD/$ANTO

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I chose Goldroad Arizona which is now known as Ghost Town, gold was first discovered here in the 1860s the Goldroad mine operated until 1931 when the mine closed and the mill was dismantled and the current population is none because it is a Ghost Town.

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I chose Silver king Arizona it was first discovered in 1873.sliver king was both the richest silver mine in arizona and the site of a frontier mining camp.

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I chose Sliver King, Arizona is a town know as "ghost town" as in no one lives there.  But in 1873 sliver mines were divorce by the Apache Indians (few people found in the area). Sullivan one of the workers found sliver king ven and kept it a secret, but soon after went to work in a nearby by ranch. In 1875 Mason the owner of the ranch found out about the mine and partnered with Poineer mining district.  Sliver Kings was the richest sliver mines in Arizona.

-Karen Marin Meza

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I chose Tombstone, Arizona which was a popular spot for mining silver. The first person to find silver there was Ed Schieffelin, and named his first claim tombstone, in 1877. In 1879, due to the silver mines, the town of Tombstone was a bustling camp with several thousand residents. Its said that over 32,000,000 ounces of silver were produced there, which equals up to over a billion dollars today!

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I chose Goldroad (Now known as Ghost Town), Arizona which was popular for its gold. Gold was first discovered in the vicinity of Goldroad in the 1860s. Rich silver discoveries in the northern part of the state drew the prospectors away and the gold discoveries were forgotten, not to be rediscovered for four decades.
Gold was once again discovered here in 1899 by prospector Jose Jerez. The current population now is none.

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I chose Goldroad, Arizona which is now a Ghost Town. Gold was first discovered in 1860's. Prospectors found rich silver in the northern part of the state which drew them away and gold was forgotten. Gold was discovered again in 1899 by Jose Jerez. The Goldroad mine was permanently shut down and the Goldroad town was abandoned.

Agustin Lopez

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This area was settles later than others because of the hostility of the Apace. It was eventually settles in the late 1800's. The train depot was built in the early 1880's but the town was official until later. The primary minerals minded were silver and lead.

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ruby is a Ghost Town right now and was a town at 1907. the population is the person taking care of it but the people that where there was 2000 at most. its elevation is 4,186 Feet ( 1,276 meters)
-chris h

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I  chose Globe, Arizona which was founded in the late 1870’s. The Globe area was originally worked for silver.  Globe is one of the older mining towns in Arizona. Globe, next to Pinal Creek and between mountains, is reached by Highway 60, a road about an hour and half drive almost due east of Phoenix, Arizona.

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I chose Warren, Arizona which was popular for mining copper. It was primarily designed as a bedroom community for the more affluent citizens of the mining district. The current population is 6,800. There has been a steady decline in living here, but it boasts ownership of many public services including City Hall, Greenway Elementary School, Bisbee High School, and the historic Warren Ballpark.

-Pedro Lopez

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I chose Bisbee, Az. It is known for mining 102 million ounces of silver and 2.8 million ounces of gold. The current population is 5,203. Both the Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum and the Bisbee Restoration Museum chronicle the city’s copper-mining past.

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Town name is vulture pipeline
Henry Wickenburg discovered gold here in 1863. The mine was active again in 1910 to 1917 they got like 2 million dollar off the mine but the most thing taht they had in the mine was gold. The mine also became a town in 1880. gold production for the district through 1959 was about 366,000 ounces. About 250 ounces of this was from placers. A user reports that in the early 2000's the new owners bulldozed the historic stamp mill.

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I choose Miami Arizona which America’s most significant drivers of growth. However, these boom-towns is Miami, a former copper-mining town in Central Arizona that saw rapid development at the turn of the 20th century.  Before the copper industry began to boom, it was gold and silver that spurred development of the area. The early Spanish, Mexican and American prospectors who roamed the southwest back in the day ignored copper altogether, searching the region for these other minerals.

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I chose Bisbee, Bisbee was mainly for copper mining. the weather in Bisbee is hostile and that is why it became a copper mine in the late 1870's. Progression of this town was slow because of the hostilities for the Apache tribe. But once the mining site was rediscovered many years late, Bisbee became a remote copper ore. Currently is still an active town and has 6,800 people live in Bisbee today.

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Chloride, Arizona was founded in 1863. In this town, people mined for gold and silver.
At its peak, 5,000 people lived here, but now, the population sits at 500 people. It is the oldest mining town in Arizona with people living there. The name derived from the silver chloride that grew in the mountains. Although the region was mostly abundant with silver, other minerals such as gold, lead, and zinc were discovered there, too. In 1870, a treaty was signed with the Hualapai Indians to allow settlers to mine there after a dispute.
The Chloride Post Office, established in 1873, is one of the oldest post offices in Arizona. The Santa Fe Railroad, built in 1898, runs through Chloride and has been intact since, despite the closure of the station. Around 1944, gold and silver dropped in value and mines were closed, leaving Chloride to almost be a ghost town. Most people who inhabit the town are retirees, artists, musicians, and the such.

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I chose this town called Ray. Ray was constructed in 1909 as a company town by the Arizona Hercules Copper Company.  They settle there in 1909 and later in the late 1940's open-pit mining replaced the underground workings. Ray was mostly known for the large copper mine there. The growing pit eventually engulfed the town and Ray was moved to the town of Kearney in the late 50's. people don't live there no more.

-Henok Filipo

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Current population: 1,851 people
Settled in 1909. Was popular for silver mining back in 1870's. However, in the early 1880's the price of silver dropped and prices of copper started to rise. In 1906, Miami Copper Company began working to claim the areas in Miami and demanded for more men to work in the mines. Most men traveled on foot. And the few men who managed to keep their horses lived 7 miles west of Globe. The factory need to provide miners with convent housing, shopping and places of amusement led to the founding of Miami Arizona. -Sanda Win

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Ruby, a town which was used for mining operations and the development of its commercial and postal office. At Ruby, a dam was built to collect runoff and several small operators worked at the reservoir. In 1926 this was bought by Eagle Picher. As Ruby did not have enough water, Eagle Picher built pipes to continue producing mining. The mine managed to produce more than 10,000,000 in lead, zinc and copper. In 1926, Ruby had approximately 2,000 citizens, who lived in bell farms on the slopes. Today Rubi belongs to a group of families interested in restoring the city and processing the tailings, which has not been met and Ruby's condition is deteriorating.

Mia Eusquiano

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Miami is a active town right now and in 1909 that is when it was made a town. The town elevation is 3,411 Feet ( 1,040 meters). The population is the person taking care of it but the people that where there was 1,851.

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Courtland, Arizona was setteled in 1909, the main mineral found there is copper, at its peak there was about 2,000, now the population has completely disappeared and leaving the it with a population of 0.
with an elevation of 4,842 ft (1,476 meters)
it is now a ghost town

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I chose Silver King, Arizona to be known as (Stoneman grade) it is known for their silver mining. Their are the richest silver mine and their mini camp in Arizona. No one knows much about their camp tho it's a mystery.

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Congress is a census-designated place in Yavapai County, Arizona, United States. Once a gold-mining center for the Congress Mine and then a ghost town, Congress now serves as a retirement and bedroom community for nearby Wickenburg. The population was 1,717 at the 2000 census.

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I chose Charleston, Arizona. It have silver and it was late 1800's. The popMillvilleulation was 0 in 2009. It was famous for gunfight at OK corral. The Charleston post office was shutdown in 1888 by 1889 both Millville.  It's not a active town no more.

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I chose Lowell, Arizona was one time a sizable mining town located just to the southeast of Old Bisbee. The majority of the original townsite was consumed by the excavation of the Lavender Pit mine during the 1950s It does not have any population right now.

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deadwood south dakota was know for its lawlessness murders that took place 1876. deadwood population is 1,548, pretty low but it is a mining town. it was founded when the founders found bunch of dead trees in a creek full with gold.

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gold field was founded in 1893 and was promptly abanded after the vains dried up. After that privet investors boute the town and turned in to a tourist spot where you could watch actors act out gun duels in the center of town or rather you would want to visit the  saloon witch is also a stackhouse.
if that not your style then you could ride the train and see the old mines! and to end the day you could go ziplining.

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Charleston was known as a milling town for silver companies in Tombstone. Down the river they built 9 mills to mill silver because Tombstone didn't have enough water. I chose Charleston because it was home to Infamous residents that took part in OK corral. These famous residents were the Clanton's, who owned a ranch and the McLaury brothers. The current population of Charleston is 0 and the status of the town is a ghost town. When the Tombstone silver mines flooded in 1886, the Charleston mills shut down and the economy started to plummet.

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I chose Pinal, Arizona the city was most famous in 1878 for being known as the milling town for the Silver King mine. Pinal was a good site to build mills, with access of water, and transportation. Since 1891 after the Pinal's post office closed, the city of Pinal was soon deserted. Now known as the Ghost Town. As of today, there is very few remains of the town.

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The town I chose is called Tombstone and minerals that was being mined was silver. Ed Schieffelin , a scout for the U.S. Army, left Camp Huachuca to prospect in 1877, he was told that the discovery of his tombstone was more likely than precious metals. Schieffelin did find silver however, and he named his first claim the Tombstone. The silver mines were producing increasingly greater riches over time, and as a result the town of Tombstone grew quickly. The town of tombstone population increased up to 1,400 to 10,000. The elevation for tombstone was about 4,540ft to 1,380 meters.

-Donovan R. Lucio

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Tombstone is a town in Arizona where silver would be mined. It is still an active town and was discovered in 1878. The towns peak population was 10,000 and its current population is around 1,400. The elevation of it is 4,540 feet. By 1881, 6,000 miners were working the rich silver mines of the district. Later on, Tombstone faded into obscurity following World War 2. It was never completely abandon the post office that was there in 1878 is still there today.
-Francisco De Jesus

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I chose the Ruby story because so many people exploited it and made huge profits from it. After the dam was built in 1926 when Eagle Picher Lead Company purchased the patent rights, large-scale mining took place. From 1934 until its closure in 1940, the mine produced more than $ 10,000,000 in lead, zinc, and copper. After Eagle Picher, various groups attempted to rework the old mine with varying degrees of success. Today, all that remains of the mineral body is the large pile of tailings sand on the south side of the dam and has had different owners over the years.
Dennys Samaniego

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I chose this town because, The copper deposits were developed as the Magma Mine, which operated for 71 years, finally closing in 1982. The mine opened again during the 1990's, and new copper discoveries continue to keep Superior on the map as an active mining town.

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Ray Arizona was a big mine site it is mostly known for the large copper mine there. It was named after the nearby Ray mine which was begun by the Ray Copper Company in 1882... As we know the gold rush made mines dangerous as everyone was desperate to find gold and minerals leading a miner named Ed drew to die during a shootout near Ray in 1911. It is now a complete ghost town with pretty scenery in my opinion.

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This ghost town used to have 2,000 settlers in 1907. During this time period processing of the ore body was hampered by poor extraction methods. This also lacked adequate water. A dam was built to collect runoff. In 1926 was when the full mining experienced started. This created more dams to collect more runoff but that failed. So, a 15-mile pipeline was built from Santa Cruz River across the mountains and to Ruby. A 400 ton concentrator was also installed. 1934 until closure in 1940, the mine produced $10,000,000 in lead, zinc, and in copper (which has less value than gold and silver). Currently the population is a single care taker and all that is left of the ore body is a large pile of tailings sand (600,000 tons) on the south side of a dam.

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Vulture City is the settlement that grew up around the Vulture Mine, one of Arizona's earliest gold mines. Henry Wickenburg discovered gold here in 1863. In 1866 the Vulture mine began operations that continued at varying scale until it was closed in 1888.
The mine was active again from 1910 to 1917, during which time it yielded almost 2 million dollars in ore. The mine was reopened again in 1931 and remained active until 1945.
The date at which the mine also became a town is 1880, when the Vulture Pipeline was completed. They lacked water and couldn't hold them and the Vulture mine became the site of Vulture City.

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In 1863 Henry Wickenburg found gold here in 1910-1970. During that time they made 2 million dollars off the mine and it was mainly gold. This was one of the place in Arizona that had a lot of gold in the mines.

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Gold and Silver were mined then in the 1880's Copper prices went up. Around 1906 demand for workers increased so the need for housing, shopping and other things increased also. population as of 2019 was about 2,000.
-Eric Everidge

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Jerome, Arizona was founded in 1876 and became the fourth largest city with a population of 15,000 in the 1920s. It resides above what was once the largest copper mine in Arizona, which produced 3 million pounds of copper per month. The Great Depression slowed the mining operation. World War II greatly increased the demand for copper, but after the war the demand dramatically decreased, causing the mine to close in 1953. The remaining population of Jerome is 50 to 100 people, and it is now considered a ghost town.

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I chose Sliver King, Arizona is a town know as "ghost town" as in no one lives there.  But in 1873 sliver mines were divorce by the Apache Indians (few people found in the area). Sullivan one of the workers found sliver king ven and kept it a secret, but soon after went to work in a nearby by ranch. In 1875 Mason the owner of the ranch found out about the mine and partnered with Poineer mining district.  Sliver Kings was the richest sliver mines in Arizona.
-Erubiel Alvarado

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Ray is a ghost town in Pinal County, Arizona, United States; it is mostly known for the large copper mine there. It was named after the nearby Ray mine, which was begun by the Ray Copper Company in 1882, after the sister of one of the miners, whose name was Bullinger.

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Courtland was settled in 1909, copper was the main mineral found there, before, there was about 2,000, now the population has completely disappeared, making it a ghost town with an elevation of 4,842 ft.