Gold Prospectors

The North American gold rush, specifically the most popular one in California, lasted about seven years, in the middle of the 19th century. It had its good sides and bad sides. Early urban development, town of San Francisco, wealth accumulation, forming of the California state could be listed as a few good sides of the gold rush. On the other hand, clearing out the territory of Native Americans and environmental pollution can be said to be the bad sides of the gold excavations.

Several miners walking around town (Eureka, Colorado; circa 1920s).

On the picture we have a town called Eureka, which used to be a prosperous mining town up until WW2 when their mill was closed down. Today it is a ghost town.