The village of Spina was established after W.J. Power gained control of the Kinney Mine in 1909. It was served by a station of the Great Northern Railway.
I've been to my fair share of cemeteries but two things really jumped out at me. 1. Quite a few Russian tombstones from early 1900s are here. In Russian. And 2 the amount of babies and children that died in 1915. That winter must have been brutal and they just didnt make it. Very nice old cemetary.
Across from McDonalds on 169
Across from McDonald's
Costin Village was the first settlement and I would probably guess Mountain Iron took the village over with the money from the iron industry. It's not a ghost town because Mountain Iron is Costin Village.
In Virginia lake there is a giant loon.
This ghost town is located in a quarry owned by US Steel.
Here's what the owners are up to with the property https://www.manganesebasecamp.com/
Manganese was one of the last of the mining communities to be established, and named after the mineral located in abundance. Unlike a mining "location", company towns built by the mining companies to house workers for their mines while they retained ownership of the land. At its peak around 1919, Manganese had two hotels, a bank, two grocery stores, a lumber yard , a livery stable, a barbershop, a pool room, a show hall and a two room school, and housed a population of nearly 600. After the end of WW1, the population of Manganese went in to steady decline, resulting in complete abandonment by 1960.
Buried in the resort.