Sentences with phrase «gold rush towns»

Morning Continue 185 kilometres (115 miles) north, through the gold rush towns of Gympie and Maryborough to the whale watching capital of the world, Hervey Bay.

The town of Amlwch became Anglesey's own «Copper Rush» town, just as unruly as the wild west gold rush towns.

But like most Gold Rush towns, the rush was short - lived.

Searing temperatures shattered 11 heat records in British Columbia last month, including a sweltering 36.5 ºC recorded at the historic gold rush town of Lytton.

Leydsdorp is an old gold rush town dating back to the end of last Century.

Three independent movies from this year deserve a special mention... Bill Morrison's documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time, the socio - political history of a gold rush town, illustrated with film stock recovered from beneath an abandoned ice rink... Oxide Ghosts, director Michael Cumming's assemblage of VHS outtakes from the influential, more relevant than ever TV news satire Brass Eye... and Dispossession, a restrained documentary about the housing crisis that's provoked fiercely energetic audience discussions up and down the land, culminating in a panel discussion at Curzon Chelsea with director Paul Sng, author Anna Minton and Jeremy Corbyn MP.

Using archival footage to tell the story, and accompanied by an originally composed score by Alex Somers,» Dawson City: Frozen Time», will depict a unique history of a Canadian gold rush town by chronicling the life cycle of a singular film collection through its exile, burial, rediscovery, and salvation — and through that collection, how a First Nation hunting camp was transformed and displaced.

A film may also have an artistic edge that qualifies it as a DocDays, such as Bill Morrison's experimental Dawson City: Frozen Time, which told the story of this remote gold rush town made using early film stock that was discovered there, buried underneath an ice rink for over 50 years.

In visceral descriptions, Lourie recounts the treacherous, backbreaking 500 - mile trek up mountains and down rivers, on which London and his fellow cheechakos (a Native term for newcomers who were ignorant of the terrain and culture) risked their lives to reach the gold rush town of Dawson before winter.

Helena began as a gold rush town, but today it's a thriving city of around 29,000 people.

Situated where the mountains give way to flatlands, it resembles a gold rush town gone bust.

We will stay the night in the old gold rush town of Pilgrims Rest, a living museum dating back to 1873.

Visitors can return to Sunshine Coast Airport or Brisbane via the gold rush town of Gympie and market towns of Eumundi and Cooroy.

This historically rich former gold rush town is surrounded by wineries, ski fields and a plethora of walking tracks.

In this small Gold Rush town in the Sierra foothills of Nevada County, the average home in the county cost $ 397,000 last year, according to Tom Dykstra, a broker with Coldwell Banker Grass Roots Realty in Nevada City.

Not exact matches

Rhyolite is one of Nevada's largest ghost towns, and formed in 1904 during the Gold Rush.

Gold rush continued in Chamarajanagar town in the South Indian state of Karnataka.

Instead the seers have grown wealthy as a result of their claims — and so has their town, which has boomed as a result of the «Madonna gold rush».

The city has had a boom and bust history first as the capital of the region and important shipping center during the gold rush years, and then as a party town during Prohibition.

Since the New Southern renaissance turned the spotlight on Charleston a decade ago, restaurants have been opening at a gold rush pace, garnering the kind of media attention and food world cred usually reserved for towns with, like, more than 125,000 people.

The bucolic foothill town with a rich Gold Rush history can certainly be one where everybody knows your name.

Founded during the Gold Rush in the 19th century, Colorado town has found a way to cut energy use without sacrificing activity or comfort

It's a real town with a history and architecture dating back to the 1800s gold rush.

Mark Grieco's «Marmato» limns the effects of a new gold rush on a historic Colombian mining town.

He stops in a gold - rush town, where he finds his daughter working in a brothel.

But Bill Morrison's «Dawson City: Frozen Time» is a major work in any category, a historical spelunking expedition that dives into a long - buried trove of films discovered in a Canadian mining town and comes up with a conjoined history of the Gold Rush and American cinema.

Consider consequences of the Gold Rush before explaining in detail why each feature of the Boom Towns lead to law and order problems.

I trace our route: We'll stay at a former Gold Rush mining town tonight and hit the trail the next morning, camping out.

Anti-climax, but with a smile I've been told the world's largest chainsaw can be found in the tiny gold - rush town of Lillooet, situated deep in the gorges of British Columbia's Coast Mountains.

It's hard to ignore the landscape that shaped the people, or the history those people made — gold rushes, the Overland Stage, the Pony Express, mining towns and ranch wars and gunfighters — when you're traversing the Western United States mile by mile.

She lives in the North Georgia Mountains in the quaintest small town you could ever hope to find where a festival is held every month for everything from Wildflowers to Literary to the Gold Rush of 1833!

The Golden Quest Discovery Trail is a 600 - mile self - drive route that links some of the towns of the Western Australia Gold Rush, most of which are now abandoned, along with other interesting sites.

Our guide Gerald Garner is brilliant on Johannesburg's history: the gold rush, the extraordinary boom town expansion (the population grew from a few farmers in 1886 to 80,000 within eight years), the British colonisation, the Boer War, the imposition of apartheid, the imprisonment and freeing of Mandela and the more recent fall and rebirth of the city.

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The town of Columbia was settled during the Gold Rush of the late 1840s and is now perfectly preserved.

Briefly a gold - rush town in the mid-19th century for its location near the Ballarat goldfields, Geelong is now the centre for Victoria's service industries.

High up on the plateau above Nelspruit, alongside the picture - perfect mining town, Kaapsehoop (a far more authentic experience to Pilgrim's Rest — they discovered gold here even before Johannesburg's gold rush) you can do a tour of Adams Calendar (apparently the oldest man - made structure on earth).

Gold was first discovered here in 1859, paving the way for a flood of prospectors who set up a thriving gold - rush town — much of the old town structure still remains, and Breckenridge is home to the largest protected historical district in the stGold was first discovered here in 1859, paving the way for a flood of prospectors who set up a thriving gold - rush town — much of the old town structure still remains, and Breckenridge is home to the largest protected historical district in the stgold - rush town — much of the old town structure still remains, and Breckenridge is home to the largest protected historical district in the state.

The Gold Rush ushered in the American age and changed Santa Barbara from a sleepy pueblo to a bustling little town.

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A former gold - rush town, Vancouver is among Canada's largest cities, and its port is the largest on North America's west coast - handling a staggering 65 million tonnes every year, and is consistently ranked as one of the planet's top three most desirable places to live.

Rich in history (the gold rush, logging, ghost towns), Mendocino County is conveniently located in wine country on the Pacific Coast, and within driving distance of San Francisco.

There are peaceful, timeless mountain villages like Vilcabamba and picturesque former gold - mining towns such as Zaruma that offer a perfect antidote to the vertiginous rush of modern - day life.

But there's another destination within driving distance of San Francisco, rich in history (the gold rush, logging, ghost towns) and conveniently located on the Pacific Coast and in wine country: Mendocino County.

Although the years of the gold rush years have long passed and settlers have since relocated, the remaining 600 residents of this charming mountain town have kept true to its colonial heritage.

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Spend the day at the recreated gold - mining town of Sovereign Hill, which brings to life Australia's splendid 1850s gold rush era.

Both of these films will focus much deserved attention on the town, the origin of which was the 1880s gold rush (the Sheba Mine remains one of the richest working gold mines in the world).

Try knife - making at Barrytown; gold - panning at Shantytown, the restored town from the gold - rush era; and glass - blowing at Hokitika.

Try glass - blowing at Hokitika, knife - making at Barrytown and gold - panning at Shantytown, the restored town from the gold - rush era, before arriving at the blowholes of Punakaiki.