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2014 - Completed Ghost Town Projects

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Amache-Prowers County, Colorado
Amache - by Lily Havey...(The only exception to the focus on Utah because of her personal experience as an internee.) This is all that is left of one of the mess halls. In my book, "Gasa Gasa Girl Goes to Camp: A Nisei Youth Behind a World War II Fence," there is a photograph by Jack Muro of a mess hall decorated for Christmas..
Devil's Slide-Morgan County, Utah
Devil's Slide - by Peon Clover...A town quickly grew with the success of the cement plant. At one time the population of the tiny village exceeded 250 people..
Goshen-Utah County, Utah
Goshen - by Elizabeth Miklavcic...When we were driving west on the way to Delta, we did not notice this facility, but on the way back to Salt Lake City, we were awestruck by this incredible, massive, structure cut into the mountain, that looked like Anasazi ruins. We had to stop!...
Grafton-Washington County, Utah
Grafton - by Phillip Bimstein and Red Rock Rondo...In 1866, just a few short years after Marvelous Flood Tenney was born, two girls (Loretta Russell and Elizabeth Woodbury) died on a swing in a tragic accident in Grafton, Utah...
Great Salt Lake-Salt Lake County, Utah
Great Salt Lake - by Elizabeth Miklavcic...We decided to take the North Temple frontage road next to Interstate 80 (also called the Lincoln Highway), when we saw this graffiti covered railway car and cinderblock building...
Lucin-Box Elder County, Utah
Lucin - by Elizabeth Miklavcic...When the railroads were first moving across the country, they needed water for their steam engines. The Lucin ponds were developed in the 1800's for this purpose...
Mount Pleasant-Sandpete County, Utah
Mount Pleasant - by Haun's Mill-Eliza Wren and Nord Anderson...Jackson is the lead character who in an act of rage, murders his cheating lover, April, and her man. He then goes on the run, creates a disguise and moves across the country dodging the police, all the while being tormented by what he has done and the place where it happened...
Rockwell's Station-Salt Lake County, Utah
Rockwell's Station - by Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic...The Pony Express and Overland Mail Service operated for 18 months, from April 3, 1860 to October 1861 before the Telegraph was established. The westbound pony rider proceeded south along today’s State Street to this station, which was located just south of the Utah State Prison...
Salt Lake City Cemetery-Salt Lake County, Utah
Salt Lake City Cemetery - by Elizabeth and Jimmy Miklavcic...I don't need to think about you. Really, I don't. My mind gets so cluttered up with thoughts.That just being able to let you in for a brief moment with nothing except acceptance gives me chills and lets my eyes see...
Thistle-Wasatch County, Utah
Thistle - by Dave Hogan...Thistle is permeated with a peculiar sadness. Most ghost towns are abandoned suddenly when the mine stops producing or the wells run dry over the span of a few years...
Topaz-Millard County, Utah
Topaz - by Elizabeth Miklavcic...The mile-square camp begins at the corner of 10000 West and 4500 North, with a monument located at 10750 West and 4500 North...
Widtsoe Junction-Garfield County, Utah
Widtsoe Junction - by Elizabeth Miklavcic...It was late December and the temperature was cold, but the evening light was warm and inviting. Our eyes were attracted to an abandoned stucco home....