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An Old Mining Town - Rochford, SD

9/4/2015

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Founded in 1877, the Black Hills town of Rochford, South Dakota once had 500 residents, two hotels and 200 homes. When the area gold mines gave out, the prospectors moved on and, by 1881, it is said that only three men remained in town.

A hundred years later, people started coming back and reviving the old saloons.
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The front porch of the Moonshine Gulch Saloon is a good place to pass the afternoon. You could also stop by the "Mall."
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You can get the key to the museum from the saloon.
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The Pattersons offer rooms to rent at their home, which sits on Mickelson Bike Trail.
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The remains of a gold mine that blew up and killed two men in 1902.
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Larry Hamm
6/13/2019 08:26:41 pm

You have an amazing site! The places you write about are quite interesting, and certainly pique my curiosity.

Of all the wonderful places you write about, I find the piece about Rochford, SD the least wonderful, and the most interesting! I suppose that's because I grew up there. I attended its one room schoolhouse, and my grandparents owned the Moonshine Gulch Saloon in the '50s and '60s. Back then the only visitors were mostly local summer tourists and local winter hunters.

Now the news in Rochford is that recent exploration by deep core drilling has uncovered massive rich gold deposits nearby, and the sleepy little hamlet will no longer be the same. Everything changes...

Thanks for the reminiscences!

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