Sentences with phrase «silver mining town»

A former silver mining town, Park City is now home to two world - class ski resorts and was the mountain host for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympic Winter Games.
It was a silver mining town and played an important role during Mexico's war of Independence.
But don't spend all your money there: The silver mining town of Taxco is a two - hour drive northeast of Acapulco.
For a change, you might like to try an elegant horse - drawn carriage ride instead through the historic silver mining town of Aspen.
This colonial city in the mountains of central Mexico was once a silver mining town and although it's a UNESCO World Heritage Site strangely it's not very popular with foreign tourists, who prefer San Miguel de Allende just an hour away.

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Silver City, Idaho, is a historic mining town that feels as though it has been frozen in time.
He then muscles into the Nevada silver - mining business and becomes one of a town's most powerful citizens.
Denton, a dusty, one - saloon town that once served a silver mine, long since forgotten by both God and commerce.
We also loop to Pioche, a couple of miles off the Great Basin Highway, where a cute little opera house recalls the era when silver was mined in this remote town.
Once a mining town, Silver City is now famous for its thriving downtown arts district.
It's part of the bewitching charm of this old silver - mining town east of Salt Lake.
Silver City was a mining boom town during the 1890's and still has plenty of Victorian architecture in evidence
The town was an important silver mining center in the colonial period, then experienced a lull until William Spratling, a jewelry designer from the United States showed up in the early 1920s and brought interest to the town.
In the mountain town of Taxco in Mexico's state of Guerrero, large - scale mining can be dated to the sixteenth century, and silver is a way of life.
In 2000, the government granted rights to Canadian - based Gabriel Resources to develop a gold and silver mine in an around the small historic town.
Once a mining town, Silver City is now famous for its thriving downtown arts district.
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