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The Benson Hotel in downtown Portland, Oregon, is reportedly haunted by its original owner Cathedral Park is said to be haunted by Thelma Taylor, a teenager who was murdered there in 1949 The Columbia Gorge Hotel is reputedly the site of paranormal activity Imbrie Farm is allegedly haunted by family members of its namesake who died there Multnomah County Poor Farm, which now operates as ...
The New York State Capitol building in Albany is said to be haunted by the ghosts of a night watchman who died in a 1911 fire, artist William Morris Hunt, and others. [ 101 ] Merchant's House Museum in Manhattan is the last home in New York City from the nineteenth-century to be intact, and is reportedly haunted by former resident Gertrude ...
Abandoned Established as a resort, the village had homes, a schoolhouse, a post office, and a nascent hotel. By 1906 it was described as deserted. [2] Alpine: King: Cascade Mountains near Skykomish: late 19th century c. 1929 Destroyed Alto: Columbia: Eleven or twelve miles north-east of Dayton. 1882 (post office established) 1903 (post office ...
CL. According to several historians, the U.S. state of Oregon contains over 200 ghost towns. [1][2] Professor and historian Stephen Arndt has counted a total of 256 ghost towns in the state, some well known, others "really obscure." [3] The high number of ghost towns and former communities in the state is largely due to its frontier history and ...
SCZ. YVP. YMA. This is a partial list of ghost towns in Arizona in the United States. Most ghost towns in Arizona are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when the mines closed. Those not set up as mining camps often became mills or supply points supporting nearby mining operations. [1]
Building or houses still standing; Buildings and houses all abandoned; No population, except caretaker; Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store; Many of these communities played important roles in the history, settlement, and growth of the state.
Some towns were abandoned in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl period which mainly relied on agriculture. Eminent domain / flood control – Since 1951, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers have sought to control floods through the building of dams along rivers and the resulting outcome is a town having to be moved or abandoned and demolished.
A logging town located near Route 555 in Driftwood. [54] Holbrook: Greene County: Abandoned Although the greater Holbrook area still has residents, the village proper is almost entirely abandoned. [57] Horatio: Jefferson County: Young Township: coal mining ghost town Huron: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: A coal mining ghost town. [58 ...