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Treadwell Mine Glory Hole & Historic Trail

Douglas, AK

Trails cross the remains of the once-enormous Treadwell gold-mining complex, including foundations, machinery and the flooded glory-hole area. The site tells the story of an industrial town that largely vanished after mine flooding and collapse in the early twentieth century.

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

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Source: treadwellsociety.com

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