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Land of the Yankee Fork Interpretive Center
Located at the junction of Idaho Highways 75 and 93, this magnificent center contains interpretive information on historic central Idaho mines and on the role mining played in the state's development. The center is also the gateway to several ghost towns.
Custer, a gold-mining ghost town on the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River, ten miles north of Sunbeam, Idaho, on Idaho Highway 75, was a thriving community of the late 1870s. Today the old Custer schoolhouse is used as a museum which is open to visitors from June to September each year by the U.S. Forest Service and the "Friends of Custer." Visitors walk through the old Empire Saloon, take a self-guided tour of the town and see a slide show in the old Opera House about Custer history.
Custer is two miles north of the ghost town of Bonanza and the massive Yankee Fork Gold Dredge which operated on the Yankee Fork off and on from 1940 to 1952. The Dredge is open for guided tours each summer.
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