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21 images Created 27 Mar 2012

Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho.
Explore the former gold mining town of Custer which dates from 1879-1910. Custer Historic Site now preserves this ghost town near Stanley. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the “Land of the Yankee Fork” State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area. The past comes alive when you see old relics such as an ore stamping mill, old wooden rocking chair, plunge bath tub, gears of a hand cranked clothes washer, a foot cranked Singer sewing machine, lanterns, a wooden wagon.
The Sunbeam Dam, on the Salmon River, Idaho, was built in 1910 to make electricity for the Sunbeam Mine, which was abandoned in 1911 after bankruptcy. The dam and cliff were breached in 1934 to allow salmon and steelhead to migrate to their spawning beds.

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  • Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • A ranch gate frames the Sawtooth Mountains near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The Sawtooth Range (part of the Rocky Mountains) are made of pink granite of the 50 million year old Sawtooth batholith.
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  • Valve wheels and meters. Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • The national flag of the United States and the state flag of Idaho fly from a mast. The Seal of the Territory of Idaho was adopted in 1863 and redrawn several times before statehood in 1890. The state Great Seal was designed by Emma Edwards Green, the only woman to design a state seal. The outer ring says "Great Seal of the State of Idaho," with the star signifying a new light in the galaxy of states. The inner ring contains a banner with the Latin motto, Esto perpetua ("Let it be perpetual" or "It is forever"). A woman signifies justice, and a man dressed as a miner commemorates the chief industry in the 1890s. A shield shows a pine tree (timber interests), the Snake or Shoshone River, and a man plowing a field. A sheaf of grain and cornucopias (horns of plenty) portray bountiful agriculture.  An elk's head rises above the shield. The state flower (the wild Syringa or Mock Orange) and ripened wheat grow next to the woman.
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  • Old fire wagon. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • A plunge bath tub and old wooden rocking chair sit in a bare room with peeling wallpaper in the former gold mining town of Custer which dates from 1879-1910. Custer Historic Site now preserves this ghost town near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • The Sunbeam Dam, on the Salmon River, Idaho, was built in 1910 to make electricity for the Sunbeam Mine, which was abandoned in 1911 after bankruptcy. The cliff was breached in 1934 to allow salmon and steelhead to migrate to their spawning beds.
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  • Old egg beater. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • Large wire cable spools. Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • A ranch gate frames the Sawtooth Mountains near Stanley, Idaho, USA. A horse stands behind fencing. The Sawtooth Range (part of the Rocky Mountains) are made of pink granite of the 50 million year old Sawtooth batholith. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • An old Singer sewing machine is powered by a foot crank. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • Old iron wood-burning stove. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • Large metal drive gears. Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho. Panorama stitched from 2 overlapping photos.
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  • Ore stamping mill. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • Lanterns. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • Gears to hand crank an early washing machine. Formerly a gold mining town from 1879-1910, Custer Historic Site is now a ghost town, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The city of Custer was named after General George Armstrong Custer, who was killed in battle in 1876. Custer is now part of the Land of the Yankee Fork State Park and Challis National Forest Historic Area.
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  • Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • Liquid tanks. Yankee Fork Gold Dredge operated from 1940-1952 near near Custer Historic Site, in Idaho, USA. This floating gold dredge chewed a wide swath of stream gravel leaving rocky dredge tailings along 5.5 miles of the Yankee Fork, a tributary of the Salmon River, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. It recovered an estimated $1,037,322 in gold and silver at a cost of $1,076,100. Visit Land of the Yankee Fork State Park in Salmon-Challis National Forest near Stanley, Idaho.
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  • Cattle graze in a fenced ranch at the foot of the Sawtooth Mountains, near Stanley, Idaho, USA. The Sawtooth Range (part of the Rocky Mountains) are made of pink granite of the 50 million year old Sawtooth batholith.
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