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| Author | : Linda G. Harris |
| Publisher | : UNM Press |
| Total Pages | : 260 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9780826329080 |
Photographs and text describe some of New Mexico's ghost towns, providing information on their history, role in the state's development, why they have become ghost towns, and how some have been transformed.
| Author | : Cecile Page Vargo |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 130 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0738595209 |
High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.
| Author | : Outlet |
| Publisher | : Crescent |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Cities and towns |
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| Author | : William Carter |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 7 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Ghost towns |
| ISBN | : |
A ghost town can be evocative even if you have little idea what the place was like when it was alive. But the poignancy is greater when a surviving photograph or two show how the ruined streets and buildings looked when people walked and talked there and called them home.
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| Release | : 2011-04-19 |
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| ISBN | : 9780982505663 |
| Author | : George A. Thompson |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 194 |
| Release | : 1982 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9780942688016 |
| Author | : Lisa M Russell |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 2021-06-28 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 143966501X |
An archeologist reveals the mysterious world that disappeared under North Georgia’s man-made lakes in this fascinating history. North Georgia has more than forty lakes, and not one is natural. The state’s controversial decision to dam the region’s rivers for power and water supply changed the landscape forever. Lost communities, forgotten crossroads, dissolving racetracks and even entire towns disappeared, with remnants occasionally peeking up from the depths during times of extreme drought. The creation of Lake Lanier displaced more than seven hundred families. During the construction of Lake Chatuge, busloads of schoolboys were brought in to help disinter graves for the community’s cemetery relocation. Contractors clearing land for the development of Lake Hartwell met with seventy-eight-year-old Eliza Brock wielding a shotgun and warning the men off her property. Georgia historian and archeologist Lisa Russell dives into the history hidden beneath North Georgia’s lakes.
| Author | : Clint Thomsen |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 110 |
| Release | : 2012-07-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1782001077 |
Tombstone, Bodie, St. Elmo, Silver City: these are some of the most famous of the Old West ghost towns and mining camps that dot America's landscape and provide hints to the country's history. But literally thousands more are scattered throughout the West, with some states boasting hundreds of abandoned boomtowns. Attracting thousands of visitors every year, many of these are protected by public and private parties alike, and visits are carefully regulated in order to preserve these valuable historical relics. Clint Thomsen describes various types of ghost town, explains their histories, and outlines ongoing research and archaeological study into decaying towns and mining camps.
| Author | : Barbara Solem-Stull |
| Publisher | : Plexus Publishing (UK) |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Automobile travel |
| ISBN | : 9780937548608 |
| Author | : Richard Miller |
| Publisher | : American Traveler Press |
| Total Pages | : 52 |
| Release | : 1992-04-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 9781558381247 |
A ghost town is only as good as the stories about it. The legends of bar-fights, famous visitors, and big findings of gold are throughout this book. It also has a good map and directions on locating the towns, some of which are "alive" today.
