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Visit Elinor, Transcontinental Railroad, Utah
Elinor, 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 fi... -
Visit Elizabeth Bay, Namibia
Elizabeth Bay is a mining town in southern coast of Namibia, 25 km south of Lüderitz. It was formerly considered a ghost town. Diamonds were first discovered in the region around 1908; however, it wasn't until 1989 that the government of Namibia spent $53 million on the exploration and creation of a new diamond mine on the site. The mine had a projected life-span... -
Visit Elkhorn State Park, Montana
Elkhorn is a small ghost town and a CDP in Jefferson County, Montana, United States, in the Elkhorn Mountains of the southwestern part of the state. Elkhorn is also a Montana State Park. Lodes of silver, described by geologists as supergene enrichments, were initially discovered in the Elkhorn mountains by Peter Wys, a Swiss immigrant. Six years later, Anton Holter, a... -
Visit El Rosario & Cactus Sanctuary, Baja California Sur, Mexico
The town of El Rosario is located in the Municipality of La Paz in Baja California Sur. There are 2 inhabitants. The Mexican authorities declared this village as uninhabited in 2010. The Cactus Sanctuary (El Santuario de Los Cactus)has some amazing cacti. Guadalupe, the local guide, provided great insights to the local flora as well as a bit of history on El Rosario.... -
Drive Through Erick, Oklahoma
Erick is a city in Beckham County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 1,052 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.0 square mile (2.6 km2), all of it land. Erick is located just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66 (which is signed as a business route from Interstate 40). The town is a... -
Visit Eureka Landing, Arizona
Eureka or Eureka Landing, is a former mining town and steamboat landing, now a ghost town, on the Arizona bank of the Colorado River in what is now La Paz County, Arizona. It was originally located in Yuma County, Arizona from 1863 through the 1870s. In the fall of 1863, the Eureka Mining District was formed when silver strikes were made in the Chocolate Mountains of ... -
Visit Fabbriche di Careggine, Italy
Fabbriche di Careggine was a medieval-era Italian village in Tuscany. The village has been inundated since the construction of the ENEL dam and the subsequent formation of the artificial Lago di Vagli in 1946. The village is occasionally seen when the lake is drained to conduct maintenance work. The village was last seen above water in 1994. -
Visit Fairbank, Arizona
Fairbank is a ghost town in Cochise County, Arizona, next to the San Pedro River. First settled in 1881, Fairbank was the closest rail stop to nearby Tombstone, which made it an important location in the development of southeastern Arizona. The town was named for Chicago investor Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank who partially financed the railroad, and was the founder of th... -
Visit Farina, South Australia
Farina, formerly Farina Town, is a town and locality in the Australian state of South Australia. At the 2006 census, Farina had a population of 55. On the edge of the desert, it sits within the Lake Eyre Basin and it is situated on the old alignment of the Ghan railway, 26 kilometres (16 mi) north of Lyndhurst and 55 kilometres (34 mi) south of Marree where the Oodnad... -
Visit Fordlândia, Brazil
Fordlândia is a now-abandoned, prefabricated industrial town established in the Amazon Rainforest in 1928 by American industrialist Henry Ford to secure a source of cultivated rubber for the automobile manufacturing operations of the Ford Motor Company in the United States. Ford had negotiated a deal with the Brazilian government granting his newly formedCompanh... -
Visit Freeman Junction, California
Freeman Junction, a ghost town in Kern County, California, USA, was first homesteaded in the 1920s by Clare C. Miley, who was born in 1900. By the 1930s a restaurant, gas station and mining activities dominated the site. By June 1976 the town had died and the remains of the town have been removed by passersby. Bedrock mortars near the original spring suggest that this... -
Visit Frisco, Utah
Frisco is a ghost town in Beaver County, Utah, USA. It was an active mining camp from 1879 to 1929. Frisco developed as the post office and commercial center for the San Francisco Mining District, and was the terminus of the Utah Southern Railroad extension from Milford. The Horn Silver Mine was discovered in 1875, and had produced $20,267,078 worth of ore by 1910. By... -
See Fry Canyon Lodge, Utah
Fry Canyon was a small community in San Juan County, Utah, United States, located in Fry Canyon, just south of White Canyon, 50 miles (80 km) west on State Route 95 from its junction with U.S. Route 191 at Blanding. Fry Canyon was a uranium boom town during the 1950s, and the Fry Canyon Lodge opened in 1955, but it has since closed in 2007. The tiny hamlet, now a ghos... -
Visit Garlock, California
Garlock (formerly, Eugeneville) is a ghost town that was known as El Paso City or Cow Wells interchangeably. The little town provided water for cattlemen and freighters wishing to avoid the potentially treacherous washes in Red Rock Canyon. Some gold had been found in the canyons of the El Paso Mountains, enough to warrant an arrastra being built in 1887. In 1893 a nu... -
Visit Garnet, Montana
Garnet is a ghost town in Granite County, Montana, United States. Located on the dirt Garnet Range Road, it is an abandoned mining town that dates from the 1860s. In First Chance Gulch in western Montana, the town is located 11 miles up the Garnet Range Road, in beautiful mountains and forest. The town is at about 6,000 feet (1,800 m) elevation. Garnet was originally ...
