Castle Dome, the looming mesa that gives the nearby Castle Dome City ghost town its name. Once the boomtown surrounding the Castle Dome mining district above several silver (and later lead) mines that thrived near Yuma, Arizona, from the late-19th into the mid-20th centuries

The site is now the centerpiece of the Castle Dome Mining Museum and Ghost Town, which introduces visitors to both the restored ghost town as well as the Hull Mine, where they can, under black light, see some of the phosphorescent minerals that led miners to veins of galena, a variety of lead ore.
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Gift; Barbara Barrett; 2018; (DLC/PP-2018:112)
Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.
Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.