Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2017 21:02:35 GMT -5
The background to this story: after about 18 years of just being shuttled around, I finally got my driving permit. And, since the Mrs. was the one who was teaching me, we learned on country roads.
So, I'm searching Google maps, looking for places like this in my area to practice and I get results about "ghost towns" in my state. Basically, it's a town that went deserted for one reason or another; train line went a few miles outside of town, oil well dried up, industry fell off, etc.
This afternoon, the Mrs. and I went to a place called Conrad, IN. The little bit I learned was that in 1906 it had a post office which lasted until 1915.
The area is now a conservatory savanna which has trees, flowers and nature. In the middle is a foundation from what may have been the post office. We're walking through and I can see myself in the early 1900s walking through town. (Reading the board, the area was once a lake that was drained to put in a train track, but it was positioned too far from town. So everybody moved away and the town "disappeared".)
Anybody else run into places like this, and what kinda things have you seen? I know a lot of them in this state only have a single trestle or an intersection point that has a plaque "such and such town was here in 1874 until a fire and cholera wiped out the town".
I find this fascinating.
So, I'm searching Google maps, looking for places like this in my area to practice and I get results about "ghost towns" in my state. Basically, it's a town that went deserted for one reason or another; train line went a few miles outside of town, oil well dried up, industry fell off, etc.
This afternoon, the Mrs. and I went to a place called Conrad, IN. The little bit I learned was that in 1906 it had a post office which lasted until 1915.
The area is now a conservatory savanna which has trees, flowers and nature. In the middle is a foundation from what may have been the post office. We're walking through and I can see myself in the early 1900s walking through town. (Reading the board, the area was once a lake that was drained to put in a train track, but it was positioned too far from town. So everybody moved away and the town "disappeared".)
Anybody else run into places like this, and what kinda things have you seen? I know a lot of them in this state only have a single trestle or an intersection point that has a plaque "such and such town was here in 1874 until a fire and cholera wiped out the town".
I find this fascinating.