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Okay, so, WTH?!?
Hey, after this posting fiasco, I’m sorry for my ever having been born.
Ghost towns! We have several within 50 miles of us, her in the Black Hills. That was mining. Also within 50 miles, we have a few others, mainly died when rail lines were abandone.
Another one was associated with an ordinance depot that was closed down in 1967. http://www.igloo-sd.com/
Our house in Oregon was less than a mile from a mining camp/ghost town, Buncom. Three to 6 miles in any of the 3 ways out of it, were other mining era ghost towns.
http://www.buncom.org/
In Nevada, we have visited some remote sites of ghost towns that had fairly large populations; one had up to 50,000 people, and was the county seat until a second devastating fire in a short period of time finished it off. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_Nevada
http://brianbutko.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/hamilton-nv-a-lincoln-highway-ghost-town/
http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/belmontmill.htm
And Idaho...had lunch here. http://www.ghosttowngallery.com/htme/silvercityid.htm
From the Oregon side, some of the road from Jordan Valley is really rotten; not so bad leaving, to get down to the west side Snake River Highway.