Ghost Towns ~ west coast
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In the Ghost town of Ingalls, Oklahoma. The Battle of Ingalls was a gunfight on September 1, 1893 between United States Marshals and the Doolin-Dalton Gang, during the closing years of the Old West era, in Ingalls, Oklahoma.[1][2] The Doolin-Dalton Gang had been involved in a number of train robberies and bank robberies, beginning around 1891. They had found a safe haven in the town of Ingalls, which unwittingly harbored many outlaws during that period. On September 1, 1893, a posse was organized by the new United States Marshal, Evett Dumas "E.D." Nix, which entered the outlaw town of Ingalls with the intent to capture the gang. The lawmen were engaged in a gunbattle in which three of the fourteen lawmen carrying Deputy Marshals' commissions would die as a result of the battle.
♫I know we're all right
Cause we'll never be alone
in this mad, mad, In this mad, mad world
Even with no light,
we're gonna shine like gold
in this mad, mad, In this mad, mad world
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I don't know what this began as, but its most recent incarnation was as a bar. That was a while ago.
[aus der Wikipedia]:
Rhyolite ist eine Geisterstadt im Nye County des US-Bundesstaates Nevada. Sie entstand durch und verging mit einem Goldvorkommen und wurde nach dem für die Landschaft prägenden Rhyolith benannt. Rhyolite liegt nordwestlich von Las Vegas auf dem Weg ins Death Valley nahe Beatty, etwa 3 km nördlich der Nevada State Route 374.
[from Wikipedia]:
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills.
View along Golden Street with the two-story school and the three-story bank building in the background. The town began in early 1905 with the discovery of gold nearby. By 1907, Rhyolite had electricity, piped water, telephones, newspapers, a hospital, stock exchange, a school, opera house and two railroads. The town had a peak population of 5,000 people in 1908 and quickly declined in 1911 when the mines closed.
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, Nevada, United States. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park.
The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills. During an ensuing gold rush, thousands of gold-seekers, developers, miners and service providers flocked to the Bullfrog Mining District. Many settled in Rhyolite, which lay in a sheltered desert basin near the region's biggest producer, the Montgomery Shoshone Mine.
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[aus der Wikipedia]:
Rhyolite ist eine Geisterstadt im Nye County des US-Bundesstaates Nevada. Sie entstand durch und verging mit einem Goldvorkommen und wurde nach dem für die Landschaft prägenden Rhyolith benannt. Rhyolite liegt nordwestlich von Las Vegas auf dem Weg ins Death Valley nahe Beatty, etwa 3 km nördlich der Nevada State Route 374.
[from Wikipedia]:
Rhyolite is a ghost town in Nye County, in the U.S. state of Nevada. It is in the Bullfrog Hills, about 120 miles (190 km) northwest of Las Vegas, near the eastern boundary of Death Valley National Park. The town began in early 1905 as one of several mining camps that sprang up after a prospecting discovery in the surrounding hills.
"I was so ahead of the curve,
the curve became a sphere,
fell behind all my classmates
and I ended up here."
~ this is me trying, taylor swift
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I know it's not nature, but still it is - the dark clouds over the city and the horizon.
Anyway, this is my life now - a little behind than others and mostly in the library:)
Well, you can say I'm surrounded by the sky over my head and through my windows, and the ocean breeze that flows over this town and embraces as I walk cross the roads, and off to the clg n hospital I go n back to room with the little magic touch with me.
How's your lives going?
Sending you all loves, I miss you 💕
ps. I've opened a WhatsApp grp book club recently and it's small, open and there's no rules; and we're reading The Waves by Virginia Woolf - who has great words and phrases if I had the time I'd like to share - anyone interested to join in is most welcome :)
Ghost town of Rhyolite Nevada
A popular method of disposing of your used tin cans was to make a pile of them outside your residence.
56 miles from the eastern edge of Death Valley is what little remains of the town of Rhyolite, Nevada. It was one of the many gold rush locations in the California/Nevada area. This one took place around 1905 and suddenly people from literally all over the world rushed to this remote desert location and a town of more than 10,000 people very quickly sprang up. It stayed that way until the gold petered out and just as quickly (around 1911) it dwindled down to a handfull of people and became, like many others, a "Ghost Town".