During the 1860s, gold lured thousands of miners to Montana’s Garnet Mountains. In 1895, the town of Garnet was established. By 1905, the initial gold boom was over and many of the mines had been abandoned. In 1935, there was another small mining boom which ended with World War II. Today the U.S. Bureau of Land Management and the Garnet Preservation Association maintain Garnet in a state of arrested decay. Throughout the town and the surrounding area, mining artifacts continue to litter the landscape as a reminder of the region’s past glory.
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