Ghost Towns and History May 18, 2019 Ghost Towns and History of Montana Newsletter R i m i n i , M o n t a n a Ad for Marshall’s Busy Corner The Home of Good Merchandise– The Roundup Record October 1917 Rimini is perched in the Ten Mile Creek Valley between Red Mountain and Lee Mountain. This settlement, originally known as Young Ireland, was centered around a silver lode discovered in 1864. Possibly taking its name from the Italian town or, from a character in Dante’s Inferno playing in nearby Helena, Rimini it became. Rimini would serve about 100 local mines. Ore would travel by rail to Wickes and later, East Helena for processing generating $7 million in gold, silver, lead and zinc ore. Mining would slow when the Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz Photo by Jolene Ewert-Hintz price of silver dropped leaving only the Porphyry Dike Mine operating. During World War Two, the town would get a revival of a different type, as a
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