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« on: May 30, 2010, 07:22:19 am »
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Hello All

Does anyone know a little about this ghost town called Cornicopia in Oregon?

It seems this Ghost town is returning to the forest?

Looks like a good place to swing a detector .

Hardluck.  Huh?

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« Reply #1 on: May 30, 2010, 07:50:48 am »
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Cornucopia is a ghost town of the gold mining boom of the 1880s in Eastern Oregon, United States. The name of the town was chosen since it meant "Horn of Plenty".  Gold was discovered in Cornucopia in 1884. The town was platted in 1886.  It is located east of Baker City high in the mountains of Pine Valley almost due north of Halfway, Oregon, on Oregon Route 86.

The name is spelled 2 ways Cornicopia or Cornucopia 
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Some 20 million dollars in gold came from this wild and wooly gold mining town full of shootings, saloons and "sporting" ladies. Shortly after the gold was found in 1885, 1000 miners flocked to the town. In 1898 the town relocated a quarter mile to a new location, and it grew quickly. The mines faded, the town died, and by the 1970s only empty buildings remained. I don't know if they are still standing, or if the town has reverted from a class C to a B site. The town is in the Wallowa National Forest, 12 miles northwest of Halfway. Some summer cabins have been built in recent years.

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« Reply #2 on: May 30, 2010, 08:46:11 am »
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Thanks Seldom

A little knowledge goes a long way.

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« Reply #3 on: May 31, 2010, 10:14:42 am »
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I might have to take a drive that way sometime, Baker is only a couple hours away. Looks like an interesting old town to poke around in.
Here are a few old pics during its heyday.

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« Reply #4 on: May 31, 2010, 11:11:53 am »
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Sounds like a good place to go check out on one of my days off.....that is if I ever get any!  lol  I am not that far away from it living in Central Oregon but my time seems to get caught up going too many directions at once   Undecided

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« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2011, 07:14:38 pm »
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Most of Cornucopia (correct spelling for Cornucopia, Oregon) is privately owned and a lot of the old buildings are used as summer cabins now.  As of 2011!  If you go, get permission to  metal detect.

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« Reply #6 on: November 02, 2011, 10:35:12 am »
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I think that is pretty much all the old mining towns these days, at least the ones in the northwest.   Undecided

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Private ownership and summer cabins does seem to be the pattern in the Northwest, all right!   Detecting

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« Reply #8 on: December 29, 2012, 02:30:24 am »
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Hello Alfieboy

Thanks for the update. I hope there some conversation of the remaining buildings. I am fine with holiday cabins as it puts the remaing buildings to good use.

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« Reply #9 on: December 29, 2012, 01:39:01 pm »
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Hi, Hardluck.  Good to hear from you.

I haven't been to Cornucopia for many years.  I've been going to go for the last several years during the summer, but something else always keeps me away. There was some conservation of some of the town buildings.  Last I heard, most of the actual mine buildings were decaying away.  Heavy winter snows, high up the mountains and just time and nature at its most powerful erase many man-made structures there.

I hope to get up there sometime when spring gets here!

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