Early Burke.

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This file appears in: The Ghost Town of Burke
Early Burke.

This early image of Burke shows how the main street and the railroad shared the same path through town.

This file appears in: 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…