Tagged With "Silver Plume"

I expect this is a very popular local tradition.

Wish I'd had THAT manhole cover for the blog we had here on Gumbo! And you got my heart with the bus...same model was my school bus at Fort Leavenworth in the 50s...

Wallace reminds me of all my favorite places in the western US although I'd never heard of it before. I guess it's the look of an era rather than a particular place, when civilization arrived, paid for by the mines. Shacks replaced by wood replaced by stone & brick, a similar story all over the West. And amazing that so many survive. Thanks, DrF.

Wallace is a very neat town to visit, very recommended stop along the I-90 freeway. Perfect place to walk around for a half day or day and take in the ambience of small town America. As you say, Port Moresby, there's a repeatable charm to how these towns grew up.

Nice bus, i would like to take a trip on it

I love visiting old, small towns. There can be so much to see and it looks like Wallace has a lot of interesting history. The Bordello museum sounds fascinating and classic buses are a favorite of mine too. Thanks for taking us there DrF.

 Geysers got their name in Iceland sometime in the 12th century.  Iceland has abundant geothermally heated water, many homes not even having a hot water heater, just naturally hot water pumped in.   While it's no longer very...

  I love going on leisurely road trips -- the kind where you've several spare hours to pull over somewhere and explore.  If a place seems interesting, I like to check it out.   So it was this past summer while we were visiting...

Netweather.tv illustration from the Telegraph (UK)   Robert Browning wouldn't be very happy with this week's April weather forecast for much of Britain. A "polar plume" is expected to arrive, bringing sub-freezing temperatures to Scotland and...

Iceland's newest museum looks at the volcanic forces that created its land and which, in recent years, have reminded all of us of nature's power.

Paul Hunter shares a few images from the annual carol service at Stokesley in North Yorkshire, with the Bilsdale Silver Band.

  One of the world's most respected motorcycle brands is the Indian , produced in Springfield, Mass from 1901 to 1953.  While the company made popular and fast bikes, it went broke and shuttered its production line.  The brand was...

(Volcanoes National Park -- plume of volcanic smoke from Halema'uma Crater) There are many places in the world I wish everyone could visit.  At the top of this list is Hawaii.  It’s a great travel destination and for me retains...

Don't panic, but keep alert if you have trans-Atlantic travel plans in the next few weeks. The Icelandic Meteorological Office has reported a sudden flurry of small earthquakes that could be a prelude to an eruption of Bardarbunga, one of the...

I've driven past the picturesque town of Wallace, Idaho (population about 800) many times and had always been drawn to the historic buildings and beautiful setting.  I remember telling my wife that someday we needed to exit and explore the town,...

With a massive ash plume and minor earthquakes, Mount Etna pushes its way into the news again.

I love that part of Colorado, lived for 5 years farther down Clear Creek in Golden ("It's the water." Coors). I did some exploring but never got to Silver Plume. But to nearby Georgetown to see where my miner 3rd great grandfather, Gustavus Augustus Williams plied his trade for a number of years, according to the records. The architecture is much the same as here in California Gold Country and my family's presence in the West for generations means it looks like home to me. Thanks, DrF.

Many of my ancestors travelled to the new world in search of their fortune. A few stayed and started a new family line. And a few lost their lives to logging and other accidents. So were the few inhabitants of Silver Plume an ageing population ? Did the town have that look of a closing down sale ? I love visiting small towns with a rich history. Will it disappear into the dust of time ? Wouldn't it be great if someone did a history of these one time boom towns before they vanish.

Thanks for your comments, Garry and PortMoresby. Those few people left in the town were a mix of older folks and some younger ones. I expect the town will continue in its present state for sometime. Those who did well in the mining booms were always those first there (who staked the claims), but even more so those who came in and provided services (groceries, hotels, restaurants, bars, brothels). The latter were often the only ones who kept any of their wealth.

DrFumblefinger enjoyed this beautiful and rare one-of-a-kind customized Rolls Royce, its body made of solid copper.

Goldfield is an old gold-mining town, largely abandoned, but with some of its history on display.

DrFumblefinger shares a visit to the fabulous Gold Room in Sweden's History Museum. The collection is one of the largest and most extensive in Europe.

DrFumblefinger rides the Georgetown Loop, a historic steam powered train that connects the old silver mining towns of Georgetown and Silver Plume.

DrFumblefinger strolls the streets of the old silver mining center of Georgetown, in the front range of the Colorado Rocky Mountains,

DrFumblefinger enjoys photographing old abandoned buildings, like this saloon north of Helena, Montana.

Earthquake activity appears to be the harbinger of a major volcanic eruption in southwest Iceland

DrFumblefinger visits a remote region of the Himalayas, near the base camp for climbing Mount Everest

Our journey took us from the magical place that is Chobe National Park, across the Chobe River and into Zambia.  Here we were to encounter one of the most amazing natural sites in the world.