GREENHORN
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NAME: Greenhorn COUNTY: Baker ROADS: 2WD GRID: 3 CLIMATE: Great in the summer but impassible without snowmobiles in the winter BEST TIME TO VISIT: Anytime. |
COMMENTS:
Beautiful location. REMAINS: A few buildings.Many current houses. |
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As one might suspect, the name of the town suggests
something rather peculiar. When two young men from the East who knew nothing
about mining decided to go West to find their fortune, they picked a small
camp in the Blue Mountains. Nobody seems to know why. On arrival, they
walked into a saloon and asked the bartender where they could start digging
for gold. A miner standing nearby captured the opportunity to play a joke
on the greenhorns. He took them outside, pointed to a spot on the side
of the mountain and suggested that was a good place to start. And start
they did. A short while later, they returned with a chunk of rock richer
than anything yet discovered in the camp. They filed their claim but didn’t
get a chance to name their mine. The pranksters had already given it the
name of the “Greenhorn Mine.” The camp gave itself the name
Greenhorn and it steadily grew into a real town with hotels, saloons and
a weekly newspaper. By 1895, the town had a population of around 3,200
and several other large mines. Years later when mining became unprofitable,
Greenhorn died as its population moved away.
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