{"id":3029,"slug":"florence-riggins-idaho","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Florence is the swelled — the '50 to 9,000' that's the year's jump, the 'county seat' that's the camp's rank. The 'name fought' is the argued — the 'stepdaughter' that's the one version, the 'ill repute' that's the other's claim. The 'six million' is the dug — the '1862' that's the boom's year, the 'placers' that's the gold's kind.","The '575 left' is the emptied — the 'first census' that's the count's year, the 'seat moved' that's the '69's loss. The 'cemetery tells' is the kept — the 'unsavory' that's the buried's kind, the 'interpretive' that's the forest's signs. Florence is the hidden — the 'can't tell' that's the site's now, the 'kiosk' that's the guide's form.","The file keeps Florence: the swelled camp, the fought name, the dug millions, and the hidden site.","Florence is the archive's Idaho file — the 9,000-person city the forest took back."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Florence is the archive's Idaho file — the boomtown that made Idaho Territory.","A basin keeps its cemetery — the file's suggestion being that Florence's hold is the emptied: the '9,000' that's the peak's count, the 'Florence' that's the argued name, and the 'cemetery' that's the proof's last."]}],"name":"Florence","aliases":[],"type":"GHOST_TOWN","type_label":"Ghost Town","cats":["DARK_HISTORY","GHOST_TOWN","LOCAL_FOLKLORE","MINING"],"groups":["dark-history","ghost-towns","legends"],"desc":"The 1861 camp that died in a year—where the graves are the story.","full_desc":"A ghost town in Riggins, Idaho, Florence is filed here for what the record attaches to it. The 1861 camp that died in a year—where the graves are the story. HauntHunt files it with ghost towns, mining history and dark history. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.","address":null,"city":"Riggins","county":null,"state":"Idaho","postal":null,"region":"West","lat":45.420591,"lon":-116.317636,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":"Historic site / park","research_notes":"PNW batch; VERIFY task auto-queued.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":59.4,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":2917,"type":"APPARITION","description":"Reported figures at the cemetery. The town has more past than present; the reports are the past refusing to stay past. The file holds testimony rather than proof; the claim remains anecdotal. 'Florence ID' carries the account. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it. The lore keeps its witness.","evidence":"ANECDOTAL","evidence_label":"Anecdotal","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.8,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Florence ID","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Idaho","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[{"description":"The 1861 boom and bust are documented. Florence's history is documented — boom, bust, and desertion all on record, the lore layered on top. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'Florence ID' carry the record. The detail belongs to the verified spine of the entry.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":"1861","date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"Florence ID","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Idaho","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Site is largely open-air; some buildings may be unsafe or on private land. Check local conditions before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Florence ID","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Idaho","publisher":"Wikipedia","type":"ENCYCLOPEDIA","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":1}}