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Visit Matlin, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
Matlin, Utah is a ghost town located in the western part of Box Elder County, Utah. It was established by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) on April 5, 1869. Chinese railroad workers built a small community and facilities to support the track section. The town relied on the railroad through its entire history. In 1904 the site was abandoned when the Lucin Cutoff was... -
Visit Mentryville, California
Mentryville was an oil drilling town in the Santa Susana Mountains in Los Angeles County, California, USA. It was started in the 1870s around the newly discovered oil reserves in that area. The first oil strike was on September 26, 1876. The town is located at the terminus of Pico Canyon Road, four miles west of the Lyons Avenue exit from I-5 in Santa Clarita. "Pico N... -
Visit Mentryville Park, Stevenson Ranch, California
This park is home to California's first oil boomtown, with structures that have stood for more than a century. -
Visit Metropolis, Nevada
Metropolis, Nevada is a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada, 12 mi (19 km) northwest of Wells. During the early twentieth century, many homesteaders attempted to farm in the Great Basin, especially in western Utah but also in northeastern Nevada. Creating the town of Metropolis was the project of an eastern businessman, Harry L. Pierce of Leominster, Massachusetts, and ... -
Visit Midland, California
Midland is a ghost town in Riverside County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of California. It is adjacent to the Little Maria Mountains and located about 20 mi (32 km) northwest of Blythe. It is accessible from Blythe in the south via Lovekin Boulevard and Midland Road, and from Rice in the north via Midland Road. From 1925 to the 1960s, Midland was a compa... -
Visit Miner's Delight, Wyoming
Hamilton City, or Miner's Delight as it was commonly known, was a town in Fremont County, Wyoming, United States, on the southeastern tip of the Wind River Range, that prospered during the mining boom in the American West in the second half of the 19th century. It was a "sister city" of Atlantic City and South Pass City. Today a few buildings still stand as a reminder... -
Visit Modena, Utah
Modena is an unincorporated community in far western Iron County, near the Nevada border in southwestern Utah, United States. It has a lot of abandoned buildings. The settlement lies along State Route 56 west of the city of Parowan, the county seat of Iron County. Its elevation is 5,476 feet (1,669 m). The Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of La... -
Visit Mono Mills, California
Mono Mills (also, Mono) is a ghost town in Mono County, California. It is located 9.5 miles (15 km) east-southeast of Lee Vining, at an elevation of 7356 feet (2242 m). Mono Mills has nearly vanished. Its site is along California State Route 120, 9.1 miles (15 km) east from the junction with U.S. Route 395. Mono Mills started as a lumber camp that supplied Bodie's min... -
Visit Montgomery Pass, Nevada
Montgomery Pass is a mountain pass on U.S. Route 6 in Mineral County, Nevada. The pass is near the Nevada/California border in Inyo National Forest. Carson and Colorado Railroad route as of 1931, showing Mt. Gomery The populated place of Mount Montgomery is located east of the pass. Mount Montgomery was also known as Mt. Gomery and Summit. Mt. Gomery was a station on ... -
Visit Monument, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
Monument, Utah is a ghost town located in the western part of Box Elder County, Utah. It was established by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) on April 1869. Chinese railroad workers built a small community and facilities to support the track section. The town relied on the railroad through its entire history. In 1904 the site was abandoned when the Lucin Cutoff was ... -
Visit Mungeranie, South Australia
Mungeranie or Mungerannie, comprising Mungerannie Hotel and Mungerannie Station, a homestead on the Birdsville Track in northeastern South Australia. Located 204 kilometres (127 mi) north of Marree, South Australia and 313 kilometres (194 mi) south of Birdsville, Queensland the Hotel is the only fuel and supplies depot on the Birdsville Track. The name "Mungeranie" is... -
Visit Nelson, Techatticup Mine & Eldorado Canyon Mine, Nevada
Originally called Eldorado by Spaniards who discovered gold in the area, the town of Nelson had a population of 37 as of 2010. The town was the site of one of the first major gold strikes in Nevada and one of the biggest mining booms in state history. Gold and silver were discovered here, and in the surrounding Eldorado Canyon around 1859. In its heyday, the area esta... -
Visit Newberry Springs, California
Newberry Springs is an unincorporated community in the western Mojave Desert of Southern California, located at the foot of the Newberry Mountains in San Bernardino County, California, United States. Newberry Spring is a spring that in the 19th century supplied water to the local Santa Fe Railway and originally was a camping place. Newberry Springs is located 20 mi (3... -
Drive Through Newkirk, New Mexico
Newkirk is a census-designated place in Guadalupe County, New Mexico, United States. The community is located at the junction of Interstate 40 and New Mexico State Road 129; historic U.S. Route 66 also passes through the community. Its population was 7 as of the 2010 census. Newkirk has a post office with ZIP code 88431. -
Visit North Bloomfield, California
North Bloomfield (previously, Bloomfield, Humbug, and Humbug City) is a small unincorporated community located in Nevada County, California. It is in the Sierra Nevada, 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Nevada City. Settled in 1852 as a mining town of the California Gold Rush, it was originally named Humbug after the creek of the same name. As the settlement grew, it was ...
