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Updated July 14, 2016 at 9:36 PM. Woodside Utah ghost town for sale. SALT LAKE CITY -- The real estate listing reads like a Wild West exhibit: A legendary gold mine, a geyser, and a supposed ...
1660573 [1] Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National ...
Klickitat. Along Washington State Route 14, where Alder creek connects into Columbia River. 1907 (post office established) 1962 (post office closed) Barren. It is believed that Lewis & Clark camped at nearby Alder Creek in 1806. Almota. Whitman. Where Almonta Creek connects into Snake River.
Further reading. External links. List of ghost towns in Oklahoma. Appearance. Autwine, in Kay County, Oklahoma. Picher, in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Oklahoma, United States of America, including abandoned sites.
Water in town was scarce. It was drawn from a spring four miles away, packed in canvas bags, and hauled to town by donkeys. [3] Johntown: Lyon: 1853: 1860s: Barren site: Considered to be the first ghost town of Nevada. [6] Jungo: Humboldt: 1911: 1952: Barren: Post office from January 1911 until May 1952 [7] Lahontan City: Churchill: 1911: 1915 ...
Saint Elmo, Colorado. Saint Elmo is a ghost town in Chaffee County, Colorado, United States. [2] Founded in 1880, Saint Elmo lies in the heart of the Sawatch Range, 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Buena Vista and sits at an elevation of 9,961 feet (3,036 m). Nearly 2,000 people settled in this town when mining for gold and silver started.
When railroads were established towns developed along the tracks or even moved to where the tracks were. Politics – In Kansas, the political atmosphere was highly divided. Towns were either pro-slavery or abolitionist. When Kansas became a free state in 1861, pro-slavery towns died out. Survival of a town also depended on if it won the county ...