Burke, 1888

ID: 4611 ~ Source: Photo: Barnard-Stockbridge Collection. #8X-0431, Historical Photograph Collection, University of Idaho Library, Moscow, Idaho.

This file appears in: The Ghost Town of Burke

This early view of Burke shows the cramped conditions under which the town was built.

This file appears in: The Ghost Town of Burke

The Ghost Town of Burke

By Hannah Peterson

Nestled in a cramped canyon seven miles from historic Wallace, are the decaying remnants of the once-booming mining town that was built to house the miners of the Hecla, Hercules, Tiger-Poorman, and Bunker Hill mines. Burke was "all length and…