Our Pick
Posted on @rawstates
Golden
1840
Josephine County, Oregon
Tedder · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
A mining camp founded by campbellite preachers who built a church but, pointedly, no saloon, the miners walked elsewhere to drink. The church, store and cottage survive as a state heritage site, and turned up as a set in an episode of Gunsmoke.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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