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Some towns that mainly relied on agriculture were abandoned in the 1930s during the Dust Bowl period. Eminent domain / flood control: Since 1951, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has 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.
Moneka is a ghost town in Linn County, Kansas, United States.The community was said to have been named for a Native American maiden with the name meaning "Morning Star". It was located on Section 1, Township 22 S, Range 23 E, Sixth Principal Meridian.
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Treece is a ghost town in Cherokee County, Kansas, United States, [1] and part of the historic Tri-State Mining District. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 138. [3] As of May 2012 the city was abandoned and most buildings and other facilities demolished due to pervasive problems with lead pollution resulting from past mining.
In Kansas City or even Salina, 40 miles southeast of Lincoln, a builder who spends $150,000 to construct a new home can safely assume it will sell for far more than $150,000, ensuring a profit.
The town was situated on the north bank of the Smoky Hill River to serve the gold mines that Charles Holliday imagined would spring up to mine the supposed gold-bearing shale along the Smoky Hill River valley. Holliday began selling town lots. Some of the first residents came from the town of Chetolah, just a few miles down the Smoky Hill River ...
Le Hunt (sometimes rendered as LeHunt) is a ghost town in Montgomery County, Kansas, United States. [1] While most of the site has been reclaimed by nature, the ruins of the United Kansas Portland Cement Company plant can still be seen today in the woods along the eastern shore of Elk City Lake.
Silkville is a ghost town in Williamsburg Township, Franklin County, Kansas, United States. [1] It was located approximately two miles southwest of Williamsburg at the intersection of U.S. 50 highway and Arkansas Road. [2] The settlement was founded in the late 1800s by a Frenchman named Ernest de Boissière, who believed in Fourierian utopian ...