Granite Ghost Town

Rachel, Cara, Yuchen, Meredith and myself made a trip to the Granite Ghost Town on Monday. The town, most well known for its ruby mine, was inhabited by more than 3,000 people back in middle of the 19th century. However, executive orders that placed government rights on a large percentage of the rubies drove all of the miners out by 1930. The ruins of the mine were really cool, but the empty homesteads were even cooler. The town operated completely independently from Phillipsburg, although high schoolers did have to walk 4 miles to town if they attended school, and had its own general store, church, and hospital. Amazing stuff!

Here's a picture of us at the highest point of the mine. They don't call it Big Sky country for nothing'