Radersburg
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Montana
A view from 1939:
RADERSBURG, (4,567 alt., 152 pop.), is an old mining
town that to some extent came back. It sprang up in 1866, when
John Keating opened the Keating Mine, and boomed the following
year, when the East Pacific claim was discovered north of town.
The two mines together produced more than $3,000,000 in gold
and silver up to 1904, but were worked only intermittently
during the following thirty years. Rising prices after 1933
brought a brisk revival of activity.
Radersburg is the birthplace of Myrna Loy, christened Myrna
Williams, the movie actress.
Source: Montana: A State Guide Book; Compiled and Written
by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration
for the State of Montana; September, 1939. |