Mining booms and busts left Galena with scattered historic buildings and remnants of a once-busier Black Hills settlement. The community is not entirely abandoned, so visitors should stay on public roads and treat occupied or posted structures as private property.
Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.
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Source: sdpb.org/rural-life-and-history/2020-10-13/galena-the-ghost-town-that-refuses-to-die