Deadwood History, Inc., Adams Museum Collection.  A hoist is used to transport people and ore in a mine. The winch is used to lower and raise the cages in the hoist...

In partnership with Deadwood Historical Society, throughout 2025 we’ll showcase the Homestake Mining Company, a cornerstone of our local heritage. This month’s featured photo is a portrait of Mrs...

Throughout 2025, we’ll showcase the Homestake Mining Company, a cornerstone of our local heritage. This month’s featured photo is the I.C. Stump Locomotive, a twin to the J.B Haggin, the first...

Throughout 2025, we’ll showcase the Homestake Mining Company, a cornerstone of our local heritage. This month’s featured photo shows us the Golden Star Mill, a 200-stamp mill that was part of the...

Throughout 2025, we’ll showcase the Homestake Mining Company, a cornerstone of our local heritage. This month’s featured photo shows us a large group of Homestake Mining Company Employees on the...

This month’s photo, courtesy of Deadwood History Inc., is thought to have been taken during the Homestake Mining Company Lock-Out of 1901-1910. In November 1909, Thomas Greir, Homestake Mining Company...

Throughout 2025, we’ll showcase the Homestake Mining Company, a cornerstone of our local heritage. This month’s featured photo is the J.B. Haggin train engine, the heaviest artifact in the Adams...

(Photo Caption -William Remer standing next to a placer mine, undated. Deadwood History, Inc., Adams Museum Collection.) In the festive ambiance of Deadwood during Christmas, the spirit of giving and...

In collaboration with Deadwood History, Inc., this month, we proudly feature Joe Seelig, Pete Stankovich, and Laurence Seelig in “Rudebaker” Gulch, 1898. Adams Museum Collection. While...

In Deadwood, Thanksgiving assumes a special significance, drawing parallels between the bountiful harvests celebrated during the Gold Rush era and the gratitude expressed on this traditional holiday...

In Deadwood, where the echoes of laborers and prospectors from the Gold Rush era still resonate, Labor Day takes on a special significance. Celebrated on the first Monday of September, it honors this...

We’re named First Gold because of our proximity to where people made the first gold discoveries in Deadwood, and we’re collaborating with Deadwood History, Inc. to celebrate that history by featuring...

We’re excited to announce a new feature: a Miner of the Month, where we highlight one of the local miners who helped form this region. And we’re starting with one of the most famous Black Hills...

We’re proud of our history, so we chose the name First Gold because of our proximity to where the first gold was discovered in the northern Black Hills. Our friends at the Deadwood Chamber...

Calamity Jane, the legendary frontierswoman of the American West. Born Martha Jane Canary, the exact details of her early life are unclear. (Partly because of her life on the move, and partly because...

As Father’s Day approaches (it’s June 16, 2024, for those of you who still need to get a card), we’re pondering how paternal roles are intertwined with the history of Deadwood, where the pioneering...

Tall Tales are an American tradition, a way to entertain and to remember the past. There’s Paul Bunyan and his blue ox, Babe. There’s Johnny Appleseed. And there is Deadwood Dick, the fictional star...

First Gold is named because of our proximity to where gold was initially struck in Deadwood, and we’re collaborating with Deadwood History, Inc. to celebrate that history by featuring a...

We’re excited to announce a new feature: a Miner of the Month, where we highlight one of the local miners who helped form this region. And we’re starting with one of the most famous Black Hills...