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Ghost Towning/exploring abandoned places

Started by Max Rockatansky, October 05, 2018, 10:17:57 PM

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Quote from: kurumi on July 24, 2021, 01:40:06 PM
Fluteville and Campville in Connecticut, along the old CT 8, were abandoned when dams were set up in the area and CT 8 was relocated in the late 1950s:

https://hiddeninplainsightblog.com/tag/fluteville/
http://www.countytimes.com/news/when-litchfield-harwinton-really-went-under-water/article_853408f9-997b-587f-aef3-8c11dd0d8121.html
https://kurumi.com/roads/ct/abandoned.html#d_8_route
Makes me think of the 5 MA towns flooded for the Quabbin.  You can still go see the mostly empty foundations in the defunct town of Dana.
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Quote from: dlsterner on July 24, 2021, 05:56:28 PM
Quote from: tolbs17 on July 24, 2021, 01:49:38 AM
Oak City is also abandoned.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9044118,-77.3073594,3a,80.9y,128.55h,87.04t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sIy1rIyaeSSFv_snmzSEHOA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.9638468,-77.3025122,3a,20.5y,238.99h,86.38t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s9lZQpAoJZYndhmhtst1BRg!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!5m1!1e1

A single abandoned building or two does not make a ghost town.  Looks to me like Oak City NC is a town of 300-ish people; hardly a ghost town

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Oak+City,+NC+27857/@35.9613982,-77.3086233,2478m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x89ae5615803124c7:0xc1f20d047978162b!8m2!3d35.9637687!4d-77.3080209

A true abandoned/ghost town would have no (or very few) active residents.  Most of them that I am aware of are out west; one example in the eastern US would be Centralia PA.

They must be nearby if the CDP isn't even half 0.50 square miles.  It would be different if it was say a place like Allensworth, CA where the core town is long dead but the CDP included a fairly dispersed area.

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tolbs17

Cairo, Illinois. Steep population decline

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Quote from: tolbs17 on December 15, 2021, 06:48:49 PM
Cairo, Illinois. Steep population decline

Not a ghost town with a couple thousand residents.  By that logic Detroit would be a ghost town too, it isn't. 

Scott5114

I dunno. Cairo sure feels like a ghost town. Knowing that there are people that have to live in that environment in their day-to-day life actually makes it creepier.
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tolbs17

Quote from: Scott5114 on December 15, 2021, 07:16:16 PM
I dunno. Cairo sure feels like a ghost town. Knowing that there are people that have to live in that environment in their day-to-day life actually makes it creepier.
Part of is because of I-57, the Cairo Rail Bridge, and other bypasses. Riots were part of the reason too.

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Suffice to say Cairo has a ton of stuff not going for it that has led to it's decline.  It will be interesting to see if 20-30 years from now if it will become truly abandoned.

Quote from: Scott5114 on December 15, 2021, 07:16:16 PM
I dunno. Cairo sure feels like a ghost town. Knowing that there are people that have to live in that environment in their day-to-day life actually makes it creepier.

I don't disagree that it feels that way, every time I've been through there the effect is more and more pronounced.  It's the same vibe I get from much of Detroit when I go home and go out looking for ruins porn/notable abandoned buildings. 

Also, I edited the thread title to include exploring abandoned places.  This Cairo talk got me thinking abandonment tends to go hand in hand with looking for ghost towns, so why exclude it?



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