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Scene at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries.

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the phosphorescent minerals that led miners to veins of galena, a variety of lead ore. Castle Dome gets its name from a tall mesa that looms above the entire complex. Original image from Carol M. Highsmith’s America, Library of Congress collection. Digitally enhanced by rawpixel.

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Scene at the Castle Dome City ghost town, once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries.

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