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My FavoriteGhost Towns
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My FavoriteGhost Towns
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| Have you ever been going down the road and glanced out the window to see an abandoned house, rock building or even a lonely stone chimney in a field? | |
 An old Texas Ranger jail outside of Spur, Texas in 1968. |
Did you wonder who could have built it, or lived there at one time? How about taking that side road into the mountains and going around a curve and seeing a set of abandoned buildings up a gulch, exposed like weathered brown skeletons against the sky? These are all glimpses into our past history. There are ghost towns in every part of our country, towns that were born and then died due to the political winds, economic booms, or mineral wealth of the area. I've found the west a fascinating place to explore these ghost towns, and in these pages I'll share some of my favorites with you. Many ghost towns are completely gone now: Caribou, Colorado or Silver Lake, California. Then there are some towns that are mere shadows of what they once were, like Silver Plume, Colorado. They are all interesting places to see what life was like back in the old days. I hope you enjoy my Ghost Town Web. |
The New Bohn Hotel in Encampment, Wyoming |
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 The New Bohn Hotel in 1890'sEncampment, Wyoming |
Finding historical old photos of buildings that are now abandoned can be a lot of fun. These old photos give us a new perspective on the history of the particular ghost town. Compare the two photos here of the same hotel. What a difference 90 years can make. |
 Encampment Hotel in 1978 |
Mormon Settlements Out West |
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Chimney ruins at Paria |
Not all ghost towns were mining
camps or wild cattle towns. There were ferry crossings run by Mormon pioneers like John D.
Lee, and small farming communities such as Paria, Utah. Paria was settled by direction of Brigham Young in the 1870's but constant flooding of the Paria River and the erosion that resulted caused the small Mormon town to be abandoned in the early 1900's. |
Pioneer Cabin at Paria |
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And how about a tour of the fictitious western mining town of Magnolia, my Rocky Mountain model railroad layout... |
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Here's a resource page from a fellow ghost towner you might be interested in:
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Lee's Ferry
on the Colorado River, though not a town per se, was an important river crossing from the
1870's through the 1920's. It had a post office, general store, and was the only river
crossing for hundreds of miles in either direction.
