More than 300 people once lived near Woodhead lead mine but the Galloway site is now deserted.
Local historian Anna Campbell said the story began with a chance find.
"The owner of the land - who was Colonel Macadam Cathcart of Craigengillen - was a man who was keen to exploit a new enterprise from there, which he did.""In the 1841 census there were just 22 houses on the site - bear in mind that this was a site that had nothing, it was a brown hillside before that time," she said.Image source,Ms Campbell said numbers probably rose higher than that but they started to decline soon after.
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