Once a bustling town with more than 4,500 residents and its own newspaper, Jeffrey City in is a shadow of its former self with forlorn buildings left to rust and sprigs of grass breaking up tarmacked surfaces - but 24 residents refuse to let it go to ground completely. The rural enclave started out as a single homestead but after uranium was discovered in the area, a mine opened in 1957 and a drove of workers from across the US descended. According to , mine owner and prospector Bob Adams helped to establish Jeffrey City at the height of the nuclear arms race, with his company, Western Nuclear, snapping up the land and installing '26 houses, 145 trailers, a dormitory, a restaurant and bar, bathhouses... a combination firehouse and dispensary,' and a multi-purpose community hall.
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