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Another not-quite-ghost town, a former coal mining town
founded in 1880
http://collections.washingtonhistory.org/results.aspx?q=all&sub=Carbonado&page=1&show=10
http://forums.ghosttowns.com/showthread.php?18143-Carbon-River-Valley-Washington
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonado,_Washington
pic links
http://content.lib.washington.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/indocc&CISOPTR=152&CISOBOX=1&REC=1
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Smith,%20E.E.%20%20%20%20%20290
http://libraryphoto.cr.usgs.gov/cgi-bin/show_picture.cgi?ID=ID.%20Smith,%20E.E.%20%20%20%20%20298
The time that Carbonado did spend as a coal mining town is forever kept by the a cemetery, abandoned mines, a grown over coal slag pile, a school, and the company houses left behind. The cemetery holds the memories of older and more recent dead with many of the graveholders family still living nearby. Huge concrete monoliths that once held that cables for the mining carts, point straight towards the old mine shafts and openings and stand overgrown and utilized now only by the town's children. One hill in town started out as the coal slag pile and now has been carpeted by ivy and trees.
http://www3.gendisasters.com/washington/963/carbonado,-wa-mine-explosion,-dec.-1899
Bird's-eye view of Carbonado showing the first hotel in town, ca. 1890-1905
Cemetery
Lat: 47° 05' 01"N, Lon: 122° 03' 33"W
47.08361 122.0592
Turn right onto Perishing Avenue for ½ mile to end of road (just past the saloon). Road turns to the right, continue another ½ mile. Cemetery will be on the left side of the road.
The cemetery has a memorial to the people killed in a particularly bad mine disaster.
Wingate
Wingate is shown on this map as being to the west of Carbonado
http://www.historicmapworks.com/Map/US/1261497/Pierce+County+1945/Pierce+County+1945/Washington/
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