Florida Mountain Mining Sites, Tip Top Mine, West face Florida Mountain, approximately 150 feet below summit, Silver City, Owyhee County, ID
Summary
Significance: The Tip Top Mine is associated with the most active time of historic mining activity (1180s to 1910s) in Owyhee County and on Florida Mountain. This site contains the most intact minehead buildings of any of the sites examined in this study.
Survey number: HAER ID-31-C
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1890 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1910 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1910
Contributors
Historic American Engineering Record, creator
Florence, Hank, transmitter
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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