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unusual facts about ghost town


Novella Carpenter

In March 2011, the City of Oakland told Carpenter she would have to close her Ghost Town Farm because she was selling excess produce without a permit.


Alunite

In the United States it is found in the San Juan district of Colorado; Goldfield, Nevada; the ghost town of Alunite, Utah near Marysvale; and Red Mountain near Patagonia, Arizona.

Animas River

The Animas River rises high in San Juan Mountains of Colorado at the confluence of the West and North forks at the ghost town of Animas Forks and flows south past the ghost towns of Eureka and Howardsville.

Armero

After this event, the town of Guayabal was assigned as the seat of the municipality of Armero, rendering Armero a ghost town.

Bloodland, Missouri

Bloodland is ghost town in southern Pulaski County, Missouri, is surrounded by Ft. Leonard Wood. The town is near Big Piney, Missouri and close to Palace, Missouri, which is surrounded by Ft. Leonard Wood also.

Demon's World

The game then changes course, moving to a ghostly pirate ship and then the haunted American Old West, featuring a ghost town and a canyon inhabited by traditional ghosts and monsters familiar to western culture like Frankenstein's monster, Dracula, and even Jason Voorhees look-alikes.

Diamond rush

In 1908, the discovery of a diamond near Grasplatz station in German South-West Africa led to a diamond rush developing the town of Lüderitz and creating several mining settlements that today are ghost towns.

Dorothy, Minnesota

Dorothy was a small town in Section 5, Louisville Township, Red Lake County, Minnesota, now a virtual ghost town.

Etna, Texas

Most of the residents and businesses move to Bullard and the post office closed in 1883, by 1900 Etna was a ghost town.

Idrija

The ghost town of New Idria, California, a site of mercury mining during the 19th-century California Gold Rush, was named after Idrija.

Kearsarge Pass

The pass was named after the Kearsarge mine to the east, which was named by its owners after the USS Kearsarge, a ship that destroyed the CSS Alabama.

Kwigiumpainukamiut, Alaska

Kwigiumpainukamiut is a ghost town in Bethel Census Area, Alaska, United States located between Chuathbaluk and Napaimute, directly across the river from Kolmakoff Island.

La Paz County, Arizona

The name of the county is the Spanish word for the peace, and is taken from the early settlement (now ghost town) of La Paz along the Colorado River.

Louvre-Lens

"France abandoned us when the coal stopped, and we became a ghost town," said Pas-de-Calais president Daniel Percheron.

Pentedattilo

Pentedattilo (Calabrian Greek: Pentadàktilo) is a ghost town in Calabria, southern Italy, administratively a frazione of Melito di Porto Salvo.

Tremont, Indiana

Tremont, Indiana, is a ghost town formerly located in what is now the Indiana Dunes State Park and Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore in Westchester Township in northern Porter County, Indiana.

Urban decay

Britain experienced severe urban decay in the 1970s and 1980s exemplified by the number 1 single in 1981, 'Ghost Town' by The Specials.

Wasatch Range

They meet near the ghost town of Echo on the eastern slopes of the range and continue northeast as I-80.


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Alone in the Dark 3

This time, he is called to investigate the disappearance of a film crew at a two-bit ghost town known by the name of Slaughter Gulch located in the Mojave Desert in California.

Anaconda, British Columbia

Anaconda is a ghost town and former mining and smelting centre in the Boundary Country of the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, located west of the city of Grand Forks to the south of the confluence of Eholt and Boundary Creeks.

Ashcroft, Colorado

In 1955 Mace and his Toklat huskies were featured in the television series Sgt. Preston of the Yukon, and the ghost town was fitted with false fronts to imitate a Canadian set for the filming of the series through 1958.

Big Sky Bible College

The school utilized the cantonment area of the former Lewistown Air Force Station as its campus; the site is near the ghost town of Maiden, north of Lewistown in the Judith Mountains.

California State Route 299

A ghost town, Vya, Nevada, can be reached via this route, which after the border becomes a dirt road, which was formerly Nevada State Route 8A.

Centre Wellington, Ontario

The township also contains the smaller communities of Aboyne, Alma, Belwood, Dracon, Ennotville, Inverhaugh, Living Springs, Oustic, Pentland Corners, Salem, Shiloh, Simpson Corners, Speedside and Spier, and the ghost town of Ponsonby.

Chivington

Chivington, Colorado, a ghost town in Kiowa County, named for Colonel John Chivington

Clear Springs Wilderness

From Wolf Lake, visitors may choose to drive north approximately 3.5 miles (5.5 km) on Illinois Route 3 until they get to the ghost town of LaRue, Illinois.

Copper, Oregon

Copper, Jackson County, Oregon, a submerged ghost town flooded by the Applegate Dam

Drawbridge, California

After the turn bridge drawbridges were removed and most of the residents had left, the San Jose Mercury News for years incorrectly reported that the town was a ghost town and that the residents left valuables behind.

Elizabeth Bay

Elizabeth Bay, Namibia (formerly Elisabethbucht) is a ghost town in southern Namibia.

Frontier Mine

Keeley-Frontier Mine, a large abandoned mine in the ghost town of Silver Centre, Northeastern Ontario, Canada

Ghost Town Prophecy

Ghost Town Prophecy is a 2007 album/EP by Canadian/Ghanaian Musician Kae Sun.

Goldwell

Goldwell Open Air Museum, outdoor sculpture park near the ghost town of Rhyolite in the U.S. state of Nevada.

Humboldt Range

Another historical site, now a ghost town, nearby is called Star City.

Kelly Dixon

Dixon is currently developing student-oriented multidisciplinary archaeological research at the mining ghost town of Coloma, Montana.

Kumler

Kumler, Illinois, ghost town in West Township, McLean County, Illinois, USA

Lahontan Valley

Aside from the city of Fallon, the railroad junction at Hazen, and the ghost town of Stillwater, the Lahontan Valley is mostly uninhabited desert.

Little Lithodendron Wash

Little Lithodendron Wash (also known as Carrizo Wash or Little Carrizo Wash) is a stream located in Navajo County, Arizona, east of Sun Valley and west of the ghost town of Adamana.

Luning, Nevada

There is also an active page for the "ghost" town on Facebook, maintained by residents.

Melissa Thomas

Her film work to date includes: Ghost Town (2000) playing a patient, alongside Ricky Gervais, Swimming Upstream (2003) playing Dawn Fraser, alongside Geoffrey Rush and Jesse Spencer, Thank God He Met Lizzie (1997) playing a bridesmaid, alongside Cate Blanchett (known as The Wedding Party in the USA), and Dallas Doll (1993) playing Margaret, alongside Sandra Bernhard and Rose Byrne.

Miller's

Miller's, Nevada - a ghost town located in Esmeralda County, Nevada

Mount Gandhamadana

Gandhamadana is located 3 kilometres from Rameswaram, almost midway between the western edge of the island and the ghost-town of Dhanushkodi at the corner of the eastern promonotory.

Mystery Case Files

Actress Lea Thompson plays a psychic medium that helps the Master Detective solve puzzles while they investigate the mysterious destruction of a ghost town.

Newmarket Railway Station, New Zealand

Before closure, the head of the Newmarket Business Association had compared the situation at the dilapidated station as akin to Whangamomona, a railway ghost town in Taranaki, adding to the calls for a redevelopment of the station.

Patchen

Patchen, California, ghost town in the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County

Pauline Weaver

The discovery led to a gold rush and the establishment of La Paz, Arizona, now a ghost town.

Plains of San Agustin

Other sites in the area include a ghost town called Old Horse Springs and the Ake Site, a prehistoric occupation site.

Preston, Texas

It is now a ghost town and the former town site, located near Pottsboro, Grayson County, Texas, is submerged beneath the waters of Lake Texoma.

Querida

Querida, Colorado, ghost town in Custer County, Colorado, United States

Schoolcraft Township, Houghton County, Michigan

Gregoryville, a ghost town on the east side of the north end of Torch Lake.

Shane Peacock

It was based on an ocean-kayaking trip he took to a ghost-town island off the coast of Newfoundland.

St. Elmo Historic District

Elmo Historic District, St. Elmo, Colorado, a National Register of Historic Places (NRHP)-listed ghost town district that makes up part or all of St. Elmo, Colorado

Verendrye Electric Cooperative

It is named after the French Canadian explorer La Vérendrye; and for its first two years, it was headquartered in the small town of Verendrye, North Dakota (northwest of Karlsruhe; now a ghost town).

Walter Knott

Early additions to the farm included the Ghost Town & Calico Railway, a narrow gauge railroad in the Ghost Town area, a San Francisco cable car, a Pan-for-Gold attraction, the Calico Mine Train dark ride and the Timber Mountain Log Ride log flume ride.