Named for Teddy Roosevelt, the town was born in 1902 and died May 31, 1909. Strange but true, the town was buried in a mudslide. It all happened when a huge mudslide let loose and started flowing down Mule Creek. Thirty-six hours later, the slide had effectively dammed the neighboring Monumental Creek along which the town was built creating what is now Roosevelt Lake. Today, the lower shore of the lake is covered with logs that have floated up from the old cabins, and when the water is calm one can see the shapes and outlines of buildings that once was the town of Roosevelt. Undamaged are the tram towers that supported the mile-and-a-half-long cables that brought the ore down to the mill from the mines on Thunder Mountain.

Submitted by Henry Chenoweth.