Ballarat was born in eighteen ninety sevenfollowing the discovery of the Radcliff Minein Pleasant CanyonIts namesake was the famous gold cityin Victoria Australiait was never a very large townIt served Panamint Valley and Death Valleyas a miners s…
Now a ghost town, Ballarat served nearby mining camps from 1897 to 1917. They produced nearly a million in gold. The jail & a few adobe ruins remain. Seldom Seen Slim, it's last resident, was buried in Boothill in 1968. It had a school but no chur…