Left: Bordellos are consistently found together with old mining districts. Wallace was no exception. Now a museum, the Oasis was open for business until 1988. (SR photo)

You don’t have to read about history in Wallace. You experience it. The entire downtown, businesses as well as homes, is recorded on the National Register of Historic Places. The hills above Wallace are bursting with mining equipment, old mining buildings, remains of mines that were bombed (union conflict with a mining company), gated mine entrances, and unrecognizable – but fun to guess – structures used in the mining industry. It should become apparent that mining dominates what this area was and is about/Mike Broadwater, Special to the SR. More here.

Question: When did you last spend time in downtown Wallace?