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Real history
The town grew up around the De Lamar Mine, opened in 1888 and named for mining magnate Joseph Raphael De Lamar. It boomed and then declined after 1890, but people still lived there for decades. A summer-only post office ran from 1917 to 1930. The town was listed on the National Register in 1976 as a 1,600-acre district, but only four buildings were in good enough shape to count. The area is managed by the Bureau of Land Management (Wikipedia).
Ghost stories
We found no well-sourced ghost legends for this place. It is listed for its abandoned history.
Then and now
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