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Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane<\/b><\/p>\n
The first mine regiestred was the North Carolina mine in 1884, but within the next 7 years, 991 claims had been made.
\nThe main street of Castle, incorporated in 1891 with a population of about 1,500 people, the result of the influx of miners, and the barkeeps and prostitutes which provided them with services should they have a good day in the mine. Like many other mine towns, the silver panic of 1893 caused the town to die a rapid death.
\nThe best-known one time resident of Castle Town was Martha Jane Cannary Burke, or as she is better known Calamity Jane. A frontierswoman, alcoholic, Indian fighter, sometimes prostitute, she came to Castle to open a restaurant, determined to lead a lady-like existence. This didn’t work out too well and she eventually returned to the boom-town of Deadwood in the Black Hills.
\nToday once can still see the remains of the town, and the open rock basement is the remains of what was once the baker’s general store and post office. Berg’s meat market and Kidd’s furniture store was across the street and on the far hill side was Minnie’s sporting house.
\nCastle Townsite is located on private lands, and permission is required for access.<\/p>\n
Read more about Castle Town Ghost Town on Atlas Obscura…<\/a><\/p>\n Category: Ghost Towns<\/a> Castle Town Ghost Town Mining town from the late 1890s, once home to Calamity Jane The first mine regiestred was the North Carolina mine in 1884, but within the next 7 years, 991 claims had been made. The main street of Castle, incorporated in 1891 with a population of about 1,500 people, the result of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6330,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518630","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6330"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Location: Castle Town<\/a>, Montana<\/a>, US<\/a>
Edited by: hross<\/a>, Dylan<\/a>
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