Skip to content
OddWay home

Explore Weird history

Kennecott Mines National Historic Landmark

Kennicott, AK

The enormous red mill buildings and company town of Kennecott survive beneath the mountains where rich copper ore was processed from 1911 to 1938. National Park Service trails and authorized tours allow visitors to experience the industrial ghost town without entering unstable closed structures.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

Something wrong with this entry?

Source: nps.gov/places/kennecott-mines.htm

Directions