Deborah CobbMany stories abound about the construction of the dam, making it one of the most deadly public works projects of the early 20th century.
Category: Ghost Towns
Fires, Floods, and Avalanches at the Monte Cristo Ghost Town
This ghost town in Washington is a popular place to visit, with remarkably well preserved buildings and artifacts left behind that make the difficult trip to get to the Monte Cristo Ghost Town worth the hike.
Capital Apparitions in Old Cahawba, Alabama
From a 1500s destruction of the former town, to a bustling state capital, and finally, an archeological site lending more knowledge about the tribes who called it home before colonization.
Ghost to Coast: The Goldfield Hotel in Nevada
The hauntings began very shortly after the opening of the hotel.
Ghost to Coast: Virginia City Ghost Town in Montana
Virginia City isn’t just a lovely place to visit for wild west history, it’s also filled with the ghosts of previous occupants, still stuck in the gold rush days.
Ghost to Coast: Jerome Grand Hotel in Arizona
At its height, nearly 11,000 people lived in this exciting town. It earned the moniker of “the Wildest Town in the West,” from its 37 saloons and a dozen bordellos serving the bustling town.
Mining Ghosts in Slaughterhouse Gulch
The legend says that the man was the victim of a botched dynamite blast to uncover more gold in the mountains.
Dorothy Dunn and The Meade Hotel
In 1916, a young girl named Dorothy Dunn and her friends were playing in a dredge pond near a local creek when the three of them stepped off a shelf in the water and were plunged into the depths.
