by Sharon Hall | May 27, 2015 | Ghost Town Wednesday
During the early eighteenth century, Spanish explorers mentioned this area and its unique water supply flowing from seven springs which fed the nearby Pecos River. Despite those advantages, settling the area wasn’t feasible at the time due to the presence of...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 22, 2015 | Ghost Town Wednesday
This ghost town in Motley County, Texas was once a Comanche village near where Tee Pee Creek merges with the middle fork of the Pease River. In 1875 it was established as one of the first Texas Panhandle settlements as a buffalo hunting and surveyor camp by Charles...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 8, 2015 | Ghost Town Wednesday
It would be more appropriate to call today’s ghost town a “ghost commune”, established by Ernest Valeton de Boissère in 1869. He was a wealthy Frenchman, born into a Bordeaux aristocratic family in 1810. When Napoleon III came into power after the Third French...
by Sharon Hall | Apr 1, 2015 | Ghost Town Wednesday
After Ellis County, Kansas was formed on February 26, 1867, the county’s first town site began to take shape in May when the Lull brothers of Salina opened a general store strategically close to where the Kansas Pacific Railroad track would lay. They called the...
by Sharon Hall | Mar 25, 2015 | Ghost Town Wednesday
While many of Colorado’s ghost towns were formerly booming mining towns, this one east of the Black Forest near Colorado Springs was an agricultural community. The area began to be settled in 1872 and was first called Easton when a post office was established at...
by Sharon Hall | Mar 11, 2015 | Ghost Town Wednesday
Lewis Hawkins Davis left Indiana in 1851 and joined a wagon train in Independence, Missouri, heading west to Oregon Territory’s Willamette Valley. Two years after arriving he headed north to Saunders Bottom in Lewis County, Washington where he built a double log...
