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Category: Ghost Towns

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The most haunted place in Cherokee County, AL

Two tragic deaths put the Rock Run Furnace at the top of the list for most haunted places in Cherokee County, AL.

Coal Operators on the Southside Train Platform, Thurmond, W. Va.

July 23, 2019 Ghost Towns / Hotel industry / West Virginia

Women, booze, dice and cards

Thurmond, WV will always hold a place in Ripley’s Believe It or Not for the Dunglen Hotel’s fourteen year continuous poker run.

Robbins Mill & Residence – Nelsonville 1914

May 14, 2018 Coal mining / Ghost Towns / Ohio

Ohio’s Little Cities of Black Diamonds

“The Little Cities of Black Diamonds” borrows a term originally coined by a newspaperman in the 19th century to describe Nelsonville (shown here in 1914.)

August 17, 2016 Eminent domain victims / Ghost Towns / Great Smoky Mountains / Tennessee

A town dies, a park is born

Home of synchronous fireflies. But in the early 30s Elkmont, TN’s nature display was outshone by political sparks flying in all directions.

November 7, 2014 Ghost Towns / North Carolina

Mortimer & Edgemont, NC – a Backroads Tour via ‘The Mountain Laurel’

Bob Heafner, publisher of ‘The Mountain Laurel,’ recently reviewed the route of one his 1984 Backroads Tours, through Mortimer & Edgemont, NC.

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