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...
by Sharon Hall | Nov 6, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
I had seen this “ghost town” mentioned in my recent research for ghost town stories, so I will loosely place it under that category because it’s pretty interesting. Over the years, some people have thought this might be the same group of women who formed...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 30, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
I found the subject of today’s article on another blog which listed the ten best “ghost” towns to visit in Kansas. The author’s caveat was that it never became a town, but it is quite historical (and worth a trip to see) – known as the most historic place in...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 23, 2013 | Ghost Town Wednesday
In 1869 John Barkley Dawson purchased 250,000 acres of land on the Vermejo River from Lucien Maxwell (Maxwell Land Grant). For the next twenty years, Dawson developed the ranch land and built a ranch house. Coal was discovered and the deposits laid under much of...
