Coloma
A ghost town in Coloma, Montana, Coloma is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Little-documented mining camp north of Garnet. The archive files it under ghost towns. The dossier holds 1 documented fact — a documented spine with no haunting reports attached. It stands abandoned — what remains is the shell and the record. It is the sort of entry the archive keeps because the ground and the telling both survive.
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Is Coloma haunted?
No claims are filed here — the record keeps this place for its documented history, not for a haunting on file.
The record — long form
Coloma is the mystery — the 'records missing' that's the archive's gap, the 'gold lost' that's the tailings' secret. The 'fed them' is the ruled — the 'food' that's the control's lever, the 'boardinghouses' that's the companies' grip. The '1896 active' is the boomed — the 'survey' that's the USGS's report, the 'unprofitable' that's the '16's verdict.
The 'Depression returned' is the reoccupied — the 'trash dump' that's the '30s evidence, the 'newspapers' that's the walls' insulation. The 'cannonball road' is the built — the 'four miles' that's the timber's cut, the 'Garnet' that's the neighbor's name. Coloma is the walked — the 'boulders' that's the trail's lining, the 'shafts' that's the mine's remains.
The file keeps Coloma: the mystery records, the food control, the Depression return, and the walked shafts.
Coloma is the archive's Montana file — the camp that ate its profit.
Why this file matters
Coloma is the archive's Montana file — the gold town where the food was the chain.
A camp keeps its dump — the file's suggestion being that Coloma's hold is the fed: the 'boardinghouses' that's the coercion's form, the 'missing records' that's the mystery's core, and the 'returned' that's the Depression's reuse.
Documented history
The tourism record describes surviving mining remains and structures dated by 1920s–1930s newspaper insulation. A ghost town's file is unusual: the emptiness itself is documented, and this entry is part of that record. The press recorded it; the detail stands as reported history. 'Coloma - Mystery Camp of Garnet Range' documents the entry. It is the kind of fact the rest of the dossier leans on.
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Sources on file
- 01Coloma - Mystery Camp of Garnet RangeVisit Montana · tourism · A3
Field notes & open questions
Tourism source describes uncertain production history. Its speculation about secret gold output is not adopted as fact; mining claims and access require verification.