Wallace

The town saved itself with the National Register. Led by Nancy Lee Hanson, residents got the whole downtown listed in the late 1970s, which kept highway crews from tearing it down, and the freeway was instead lifted onto a viaduct some 4,400 feet long and 30 feet high along the hillside on the town's north edge. It opened on September 12, 1991. Wallace buried the retired signal with a horse-drawn hearse and bagpipes, and it lies in its coffin at the Wallace District Mining Museum. The intact streets later played the town in the 1997 film Dante's Peak.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pulaski Tunnel Trail — 1.3 mi
  The mine tunnel where a ranger held his crew at gunpoint while the 1910 fire burned over them.
• Sunshine Miners Memorial — 6.4 mi
  A steel miner raises his drill at the mouth of Big Creek, above ninety-one small headstones.
• Cataldo Mission — 20 mi
  The Schitsu'umsh built it, the 1873 reservation line left it outside, and every August 15 they come back.

More markers nearby

• Mining Wars — 4.1 mi
• Levi and May Hutton — 5.7 mi
• Burke — 5.7 mi
• Sunshine Mine Disaster — 6.4 mi