People Are Avoiding Living in This Town that the Government Had to Offer Free Lodging

A historic mining town

The town of Garnet was named after the ruby-colored stones of the same name. The area was filled with these stones undergrounds. Garnets were not really precious stones but still, they were valuable.

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Garnet is a mining town. This was in the 1800s. The town ended up having a population of more than a thousand. It became known as a busy mining town. So what happened to all the people who used to live there?