<p>The Gildersleeve mine still looks identical to when it was first built.</p>
June 26, 2013
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June 26, 2013 9:59 a.m.
After the Gold Rush
In 1931, fifty years after a gold rush brought over 10,000 fortune seekers to the Cedar Creek area of Superior, Gus and Fern Gildersleeve began building their mine on land near the original claims. What began as Depression-era subsistence mining has blossomed into one family's legacy of mining for four generations in Superior.