Mining was so big here that the town still offers underground tours into the 1870s Chollar Mine and the Ponderosa Mine, ...

The Queen Anne mansion built in 1889 for a miner turned judge in downtown Oregon City is for sale. The asking price: $1.2 million. The former Judge Thomas F. Ryan’s residence at 715 Fifth St. has ...

Animas Forks is a ghost town tucked deep in the San Juan Mountains of Colorado. Once a lively mining town, it’s now a quiet ...

Building on the success of a previous short video, the proposed film will explore urban legends about the tunnels under ...

Join host Connor Fields as he explores the wild town of Pioche, Nevada. Visit the Million Dollar Courthouse, Boot Hill Cemetery, and abandoned mines. Learn about Pioche’s rich mining past, meet ...

Lowell, Arizona, was once a prospering copper mining town located southeast of Bisbee. Today, it's famous for its historic charm and vintage cars that line the main thoroughfare.

In 1854, the town site's name was changed to Genoa. This was supposedly in honor of Christopher Columbus' birthplace, Genoa, Italy, according to Genoa's town website.

By 1892, the town had a post office, a hotel, a livery stable, a general store, a blacksmith shop and two saloons. Past research from local historian Helen Graham estimated 1,000 people called ...

LOS CERRILLOS, N.M. — About 70 teams tested their skills in the backcountry sport of burro racing Saturday in this historic turquoise-mining town. Hundreds of cheering spectators watched runners ...

Colorado’s rich and troubled mining legacy can lead to tunnel blowouts, dead rivers and Superfund mandates, making a new cleanup settlement in the tiny southwestern town of Rico sound placid ...