Deadwood history: The Golden Star Mill

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 Homestake Mining Company. The Homestake Mining Company in Lead began in 1877 and operated until 2001. It was the deepest, longest-operating and most […]

Homestake Mine: A Legacy Underground- FG

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 1,700-foot level.  Under the photo reads, “Flash Light Photographs of the Under Ground Workings of the Homestake, the Largest Gold Mine in the World. Lead, […]

Legacy of the J.B. Haggin Locomotive- FG

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 Museum. It weighs 5 tons, with a 22” wheel gauge, and bears the builder’s serial number 4669. It was built by the Baldwin Locomotive Works […]

Featured Prospector of the Month: A man named Ray

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 a Prospector of the Month.  This month’s featured photo is from the Deadwood History, Inc., Adams Museum Collection of a prospector identified only as […]