Coalmont, Blakeburn

old Coalmont hotel

We had a lot of fun geocaching and touring around Coalmont, Granite City and Blakeburn. Coalmont still has some buildings in use, but Granite City and Blakeburn are old ghost towns. There aren't many structures left, but the caches took us to some interesting spots we never would have know about otherwise.

some scenes from Coalmont

Coalmont web site

this is one of the only cabins remaining at Granite City, just up the road from Coalmont

"WELCOME TO GRANITE CITY

In 1885 a cowboy named Johnny CHANCE struck it rich!

He started a boom town that grew to a population of over two

thousand! Granite had two main streets, 'Government and Granite',

with two hundred buildings, thirteen of which were saloons!

But it was not to last, and by 1915 it was left to the deer and grass . . ."

this is a picture of a dredge on the Tulameen river in 1930. When Rick's mom was a little girl her family worked a dredge like this out of Princeton in around 1925.

an old cabin along the tram line near Blakeburn

one of the towers for the tram line almost gone now

the new strip mine above the old town of Blakeburn

all that's left of the Shaughnessy  division of Blakeburn

Meet Miss Mary McKay – of Shaughnessy Division

what we had to walk through to get to the old cabins!

old coal chute at Blakeburn      Blakeburn

a street in downtown  Blakeburn today

Blakeburn 1926

http://www.michaelkluckner.com/bciw2coalmont.html

old Blakeburn coal pit  Mullin Coal Mine by the Tulameen Turtles

view from the old town of Blakeburn

Muffy at the end of a long day

We found 9 caches , did a lot of walking and exploring and bushwhacking.