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Crystalline gold specimen from Liberty (detail), overall size 3.6 x 2.1 x 1.0 cm. Liberty is a community in Kittitas County, Washington, United States. [2] Following the discovery of gold in Swauk creek in 1873, Liberty was one of several gold-mining camps that sprang up. The Swauk creek discovery is notable for producing specimens of ...
This is a list of mountains and hills of Kitsap County, Washington by elevation. The county's highest peaks are in the Blue Hills , in the Wildcat Lake or Bremerton West USGS quadrangle . Inclusion is defined here as within 2 miles of Green Mountain or Gold Mountain, as the boundaries are not strictly defined by authorities.
Abandoned gold mining town associated with an 1873 gold rush. Liberty Bond: Klickitat: Between Appleton and Glenwood Around 1930s A former logging camp and town Lindberg: Lewis: 1911 (post office established) Loop Loop: Okanogan: Mack Manito: Martindale Franklin: McAdam Franklin: McGees Jefferson: McGowan: Pacific: 1853 (established) April 15 ...
Monte Cristo is a ghost town northwest of Monte Cristo Peak, in eastern Snohomish County in western Washington. The town was active as a mining area for gold and silver from 1889 to 1907, and later became a resort town that operated until 1983.
State Route 902 (SR 902), also named the Gold Star Memorial Highway, is a state highway located entirely in Spokane County, Washington, United States.It forms a 12-mile (19 km) loop that connects Medical Lake and Eastern State Hospital to Interstate 90 (I-90) at both ends.
The settlement was named Oro, after the Spanish word for gold, in 1892 after the surrounding gold mines and in an attempt to attract prospectors and merchants. The Post Office objected to the name "Oro" because a town was already named "Oso" in Washington, so the name was changed to Oroville, [5] in 1909.
The Bremerton watershed contains the eastern half of Gold Mountain with an associated restricted protective buffer, and is somewhat larger than the state forest. [32] Entry to the watershed by the general public is restricted, but Gold Mountain Golf Course was built on city watershed property on the south side of the hills. [33]
Washington State Geologist Wayne Moen, [5] in his 1980 report, notes: The Bodie vein is a persistent quartz fissure gold-bearing that has been partially mined. Although gold has been mined for up to a thousand feet along the strike of the vein, the vein has yet to be tested over its total length, which is excess of 6,000 feet.