by Sharon Hall | Dec 18, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Route 66 – it was called “The Mother Road” – stretching from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California. The 2448-mile road opened in 1926 and wasn’t completely paved until 1937, crossing eight states and three time zones. The Dust Bowl refugees of John...
by Sharon Hall | Dec 11, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
The land in Carbon County, Montana which eventually grew into this company mining town was purchased in 1903 by Fred and Annie Bartels. Carbon County had been created out of portions of Park and Yellowstone Counties in 1895, and so named for the rich coal deposits in...
by Sharon Hall | Dec 4, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Obadiah Higginbotham and Jonathan Randall and their families moved from Cranston , Rhode Island to the land situated on the outskirts of Pomfret, Connecticut in an area called “Ragged Hills”. Obadiah and Jonathan were both of Welsh descent and named their settlement...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 27, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
The area around today’s ghost town was settled thousands of years ago. All along the Kodiak Archipelago the Alutiiq people lived, and like most other natives they hunted marine mammals (sea otters) and fished. The community was well organized – men and women both...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 20, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Once upon a time this ghost town came within three votes of becoming the capital of Mississippi. Native Americans found it a good place to cross the Mississippi River long before the area was settled by the French in 1763, who named it “Petit Gulf”. In 1781 the...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 13, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Not only is Moonville, Ohio a ghost town in the classic sense of the term (a once thriving town completely abandoned), stories abound about the haunting of various locales in and around the town. No one seems to know where the town name originated, although some have...
