cooke city lodging Archives - TravelsFinders.Com ® http://travelsfinders.com/tag/cooke-city-lodging Tue, 28 Mar 2017 15:21:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.4 Cooke City & Silver Gate, Montana http://travelsfinders.com/cooke-city-silver-gate-montana.html http://travelsfinders.com/cooke-city-silver-gate-montana.html#respond Mon, 27 Jun 2016 03:22:00 +0000 http://travelsfinders.com/?p=207189 Combined Population: 150 (winter), 300 (summer) Cooke City was settled in 1870 by miners soon after gold was found. The area was first called the New World Mining District and the town, Shoo-Fly, but the name was soon changed to honor the banker and railway magnate, Jay Cooke, Jr. who had promised to bring a railroad to the area. The mining boom peaked in the 1880s, when hundreds of mining claims were recorded in the New World District and the population exceeded 1000. Hopes for a railroad faded, and most mining claims were abandoned, but deposits of gold, copper, lead,

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