Ghost Towns

Voodoo

Voodoo

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My fiance and I want to go on a road trip and take in some ghost towns when I get home. Probably in the midwest area where all the gold rush era ones would be. Anyone know of any good ones? Or have a favorite?
 
There a lot of ghost settlements on the prarrie just South of Canada. Lot's of rotting homesteads and farm houses too. I guess I'd head for the desert if I wanted to see ghosts towns, though. There's a big one Southeast of Boise, Idaho at the edge of the Great Basin desert.


munk
 
Not exactly a ghost town, but interesting:

http://www.nps.gov/mimi/

You get to walk through the various rooms where these guys lived, check out the toaster, worn down excercise equipment, a memo on the fridge admonishing people to throw out their old stuff. It has the feel of "OK, we're done. Just grab your personal stuff and let's go."
 
Yep. In his neck of the woods, the area of desert covering both California and Nevada, there are many ghost towns, mostly mining towns I think. A friend of his died, one who loved the 41 mag. Rusty stood just over the border into California on a mountain, and watched the funeral below at a ghost town. (this story is what I remember-I don't know if the 'funeral ' wasn't a acknowledgement service, with deceased being bured elsewhere, or if they really did have permission (or not) to bury this friend in a ghost town. Rusty had calculated the response time from California by LE using the available desert roads. He knew he could discharge the 41 in salute to his friend and be back in Nevada before any investigator found him. This seems a little far fetched to me, but you know how Rusty had back up weapons to back up weapons....a little of his imaginative paranoia was always fine with me. I got such a kick out of his stories, but never got the chance to explore the desert with him like I'd wanted. Rusty owned more than one 41 at this time I think, and I don't know if the model 58 he entrusted to me was the same weapon or not. When Rusty passed, I took it out into a mountain overlooking my town, and fired a salute, a bullet for each of the four destinations on the compass, on in the ground where I stood, and one fired West once more.





munk
 
My Sister and her first husband used to go to old mines and ghost towns in the Reno area.
They also used to like to rat around the Stillwater Okla area looking at old abandoned properties and stuff.

DaddyDett
 
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