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 29, 2013 | Tombstone Tuesday
Today I’m starting a “mini-series” for this week of all things spooky and haunting (if you’re into that kind of thing). The articles today through Friday will be about different events and places surrounding the ill-fated Donner Party. Today’s article is about the...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 28, 2013 | Military History Monday
Here is another United States “civil war” or boundary dispute that portended a fierce and future college football rivalry. This one was between Ohio and Michigan. Ohio became a sovereign state of the United States in 1803. Michigan, still a territory in 1835, would...
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...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 22, 2013 | Tombstone Tuesday
One hundred years ago today, on October 22, 1913, a massive coal mine explosion occurred in Dawson, New Mexico at the Stag Canyon Fuel Company’s Mine No. 2. Today’s “Tombstone Tuesday” pays tribute to some of the immigrant miners who perished on that horrific day. ...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 21, 2013 | Military History Monday
Tweren’t really nothing much this little “war” — just a misunderstanding (maybe a little blown out of proportion), which was eventually settled by the U.S. Supreme Court, over the interpretation of the Louisiana Purchase and various treaties...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 16, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Today’s ghost town (spelled either “Bethsheba” or “Bathsheba”) may or may not have existed, according to some. Purportedly, in 1893 an all-female village was established in Oklahoma in an area called “Cherokee Strip”. These women so...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 15, 2013 | Tombstone Tuesday
I was at the hair salon chatting with my stylist about “Tombstone Tuesdays”. She mentioned that there were some cemeteries in Muleshoe, Texas (Bailey County) that might be interesting. So, I looked up Bailey County and clicked on one of the smaller cemeteries (60...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 14, 2013 | Military History Monday
I ran across an article written in 2010, somewhat facetiously, about some lesser known “civil wars” which were largely the result of border conflicts between states or territories. These conflicts loosely come under the topic of military history in some respects, but...
by Sharon Hall | Oct 9, 2013 | Digging History Magazine, Ghost Town Wednesday
Iosepa, Utah – Hawaiian Ghost Town Skull Valley, Utah is the site of the West’s only Hawaiian ghost town. Iosepa was established in 1889 by Mormons and largely populated by Pacific Islanders Mormon converts (Hawaiians). Mormon missionaries had been sent to...
