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[SunkenCiv]

Okay, so, WTH?!?

Hey, after this posting fiasco, I’m sorry for my ever having been born.

[ApplegateRanch]

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.

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