A file photo from The Providence Journal shows a bit of Providence's Shoo Fly Village, declared "a thing of the past" when the story ran in 1911.

A reader remembered playing in Shoo Fly, but not much else. Here's what we found out.

The Shoo Fly Mine had closed by 1893 and never reopened. Today, waste rock dumps, collapsing adits, and decaying mining structures are testament to the New World Mining District’s vibrant past.