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Identifier
RS21
Title
Roosevelt
and
Roosevelt
Lake
Description
Founded
late
in the
fall
before
the
big
rush
to
Thunder
Mountain
in the
beginning
of
1902
,
Roosevelt
soon
became
the
leading
camp
in the
new
mining
district
.
Thousands
of
men
,
having
heard
that
Thunder
Mountain
was
destined
to be the
biggest
gold
producer
in the
country
,
poured
into
Roosevelt
and the
Monumental
Creek
area
. But
actual
production
did
not
begin
to
match
expectations
, and
although
the
Dewey
mine
stayed
in
production
until
1907
,
Roosevelt
did
not
become
the
big
center
its
promoters
planned
.
Relatively
little
activity
went
on
after
the
Dewey
mine
shut
down
, and in the
winters
especially
, not
many
people
remained
there.
Before
the
spring
population
returned
in
1909
, a
large
mud
slide
blocked
Monumental
Creek
below
the
town
,
May
30
.
(Slides
such
as this were
typical
of that
part
of the
country
: the
Roosevelt
slide
resulted
from
heavy
spring
rains
, and not from
mining
activities.)
Lasting
for
two
days
or
so
, the
slide
grew
large
enough
to
back
up
a
new
lake
which
flooded
the
town
, and
Roosevelt
had to be
evacuated
. For the
next
twenty
years
or
so
,
buildings
floated
around
in the
lake
; but as the
years
went
by, they
fell
apart
, and
now
there are
only
a
lot
of
boards
cast
about
in the
water
. In
recent
years
, the
level
of the
lake
has been
declining
, but the
townsite
still
is
under
water
.
Roosevelt
and the
other
Thunder
Mountain
towns
have
all
been
deserted
for
years
, and by
1962
, there were
only
two
inhabitants
on the
whole
of
Monumental
Creek
,
compared
with the
horde
that
rushed
in there
only
sixty
years
before
.
Date
1867
;
1868
;
1869
;
1870
;
1871
;
1872
;
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;
1874
;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
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;
1891
;
1892
;
1893
;
1894
;
1895
;
1896
;
1897
;
1898
;
1899
;
1900
;
1901
;
1902
;
1903
;
1904
;
1905
;
1906
;
1907
;
1908
;
1909
;
1910
;
1911
;
1912
;
1913
;
1914
;
1915
;
1916
;
1917
Subject (AAT)
Streams
Mining
Gold mining
Gold rushes
Publisher
Idaho State Historical Society
Rights
Copyright Idaho State Historical Society 2012. Permission is required for use in any form. For further information please contact the Idaho State Archives.
Spatial Coverage
Idaho(state)-Owyhee(county)-Thunder
Mountain(inhabited
place)
Type
Image;StillImage
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