Congress, AZ
What can I say about Congress? It is one of hundreds of old mining towns in Arizona, and it feels like most old mining towns: gritty and a bit depressing. There was a mine in Congress (predictably called the Congress Mine) which may or may not have been active. The buildings looked pretty decrepit and I could find no record of active mining there on-line, but there were signs by the gate instructing all visitors to check in at the office and labeling a separate entrance for deliveries. Hm. Since it was at the height of the COVID19 closures, nobody was around so I couldn’t inquire about the status of the mine.
About a half-mile from the mine was the only thing I could find of much interest (besides the usual heaps of barren tailings), and that was the old Congress cemetery, which you can see below. There were many marked graves but almost no markers/headstones to tell us whose graves they were. Of the markers there were, most were for young children.