Genealogy, geology and history are passions of mine. They don’t mesh very often, but this true story combines all three. In the mid-1800s, miners from the copper and tin-rich Cornwall region of ...

Decaying today, the structures were once home to miners who dreamed of gold in the late 1800s, according to Backpacker. The Boston Mine ghost town on the Mayflower Gulch Trail in Colorado.

Today the underground shafts of old copper mines on Ireland's west coast have a mysterious beauty. In the 1800s, miners who labored hours underground risking explosions, deadly gas, falling stone ...

MOORESBURG -- A recent discovery at the Mooresburg One-Room School reveals the day-to-day lives of miners more than 100 years ago. While going through items at the school that is ...

A lawyer and an adventurer, A.P. Crittenden was an early ’49er, with strong sympathies for the South during the Civil War. He traveled the West from Texas to San Francisco and landed in Nevada. Author ...

We stepped back in time while exploring an abandoned 1800s gold mine deep in the hills of Georgia. In this video, we follow old tracks, examine hand-dug tunnels, and uncover relics from the state ...

His adaptation of a mining song called “The Lousy Miner” exemplifies this process. Originally published in 1861 in a chapbook titled Put’s Golden Songster, the lyrics were set to a famous old tune, ...