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the outback...(HSS)

Long abandoned homestead in the ghost town of Cottonwood,SD. population 9. Cottonwood "boomed" in the late 1800's and early 1900's when the railroad came to town and nearby Route 14 was a major east-west road through the western part of the state. But industrialization,the farm crisis,the loss of the railroad,coupled with the opening of interstate 90,put the town in a downward spiral it could never get out of. This old place didn't even get to the days of indoor plumbing....

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Uploaded on September 20, 2020
Taken on June 22, 2020