Fueled by local investment and creative revitalization, Main Street makeovers are turning unexpected towns into cool summer ...

This thrift store opened in 1955 by the founders of the Community Library in Ketchum. It’s a treasure trove of secondhand ...

Small mining towns flourished at the start of the 1900s. Up until the 1930s, horse-drawn carriages and automobiles could still be seen on the same streets. Today, many of these towns lean on their ...

Julian is best known for its gold rush history, apple orchards and small-town appeal. Founded in 1870 after the discovery of gold by Drury Bailey, Julian became a booming gold mining town. Though the ...

The prosperous mining industry led Bisbee to become the largest city in the Arizona territory in the early 20th century. With a population of more than 20,000 people in 1910, the town was host to ...

life in a mining camp; an idaho town whose streets are paved with cards. whip sawing, poker playing, and thimble operating--where chinamen need not apply and idlers are few.

Sunrise: Life in a Mining Town - Pt 1. ... First real copper strike was 1881 and the copper boom resulted in a little town just down the street here away is called Hartville.

By the 1920s, 15,000 people crowded into the “Billion Dollar Mining Camp” but it was a town wreathed in death. Disease was rampant. Smelter fumes smothered vegetation, leaving hillsides barren.

“Telluride was founded in 1878 as a prosperous mining town, and its original two- and three-story flat roof structures still line many streets—namely the main street, dubbed Colorado Avenue ...