What are some examples of ghost towns that later came back?
Found one: Marinette, AZ became Sun City
Marinette was a railroad siding and doesn't really have much connection/continuity to the current communities on Grand Avenue (US 60). Hackberry out on AZ 66 (former US 66) reportedly was down to a handful of residents (some say 1 or 2) a couple times but has rebounded to a somewhat stable 103 (as of 2020).
As an aside, how many actual railroad sidings would even be considered towns by modern conventions? A lot crap ton of them never even were subdivided much less had more than a handful of people living at them. I find it strange sometimes that so many derelict sites still show up as communities along railroads in modern mapping data.
Not necessarily ghost towns, but various coal camp/company towns in eastern KY went through "boom and bust" cycles as coal companies opened, closed and reopened and reclosed. Not sure how long some of them will hang on now that coal companies have closed mines permanently.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on November 08, 2024, 07:18:37 PMI find it strange sometimes that so many derelict sites still show up as communities along railroads in modern mapping data.
Examples?
Quote from: kernals12 on November 09, 2024, 11:32:23 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on November 08, 2024, 07:18:37 PMI find it strange sometimes that so many derelict sites still show up as communities along railroads in modern mapping data.
Examples?
Pull up any major freight line and look about every ten miles. A good one is the freight line west of Buckeye which has the derelict sites of:
- Conger
- Dixie
- Crag
- Gillespie
- Harqua
- Saddle
- Papago
- Montezuma
- Camel
- Hyder (fairly known in ghost town clubs)
- Horn
- Growler
Roll is the first siding community that resembles an inhabited place.
Pompeii.
Quote from: kernals12 on November 09, 2024, 11:32:23 AMQuote from: Max Rockatansky on November 08, 2024, 07:18:37 PMI find it strange sometimes that so many derelict sites still show up as communities along railroads in modern mapping data.
Examples?
Google Maps displays some former railroad settlements that nowadays only consist of their train stops as if they were actual towns, like (https://www.google.com/maps/@58.566852,-94.1234897,13z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) these (https://www.google.com/maps/@58.1727607,-94.1446462,13z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI0MTEwNi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D) along the Winnipeg-Churchill train line in Canada. Any communities that may have existed are long gone and the only things here are the Via Rail platforms.
There's a modern city of Carthage, which is now a suburb of Tunis, at the site of the ancient city of Carthage.