{"id":172020,"date":"2023-03-07T17:43:09","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=172020"},"modified":"2023-03-07T17:43:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T17:43:09","slug":"americas-ghost-towns-left-rotting-away-as-disasters-and-costs-see-locals-flee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/americas-ghost-towns-left-rotting-away-as-disasters-and-costs-see-locals-flee\/","title":{"rendered":"America’s ghost towns left rotting away as disasters and costs see locals flee"},"content":{"rendered":"
Abandoned towns stretch across the United States, with residents leaving their former homes to rot as disaster sets into the area.<\/p>\n
Dry climates, financial troubles and flooding were all causes of some of these abandoned towns, with some only recently appearing from watery graves or turned into museums.<\/p>\n
Official bodies across America are now attempting to prevent property rot, some buildings of former mining communities that thrived in the 1920s, but it appears to be far grander a challenge than first anticipated, The Mirror reported.<\/p>\n
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One such abandoned town, Calico, California, was infamous for its silver mines and booming economy based on local mining.<\/p>\n
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The place is now a ghost town but has been renovated and fixed up into a museum that still draws visitors to this day, with its Old West buildings drawing crowds.<\/p>\n
Old West communities are a common occurrence for abandoned bits and pieces across the United States, with the "Wool Capital of the World" also appealing to visitors. <\/p>\n
Tourists are free to mull around Shaniko, Oregon, to their hearts' content, taking in the remains of a jail, school and post office.<\/p>\n
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Local Parks Services in the abandoned factories of Kennicott, Alaska, are worried about the state of the buildings, though.<\/p>\n
They are working hard to stop building decay and structural damage, which can only be prevented so much, especially if towns are uncovered from reservoirs. <\/p>\n
That was the case for Rockport, Utah, where a town had been flooded in the 1950s to make way for a reservoir, but only recently has it been rediscovered during a nasty drought in the area.<\/p>\n
Rhyolite, Nevada, is one of many locations to have suffered from the droughts and crumbling mining opportunities, with few properties left standing at the Death Drive road.<\/p>\n
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There are some areas, like Terlingua, Texas, that are not entirely abandoned, with a few locals sticking around to open gift shops appealing to tourists and travellers alike.<\/p>\n
Tourist spots like Thurmond, West Virginia, are also on hand to offer up experiences of the historic past, with a heap of buildings littered in history making up the once-booming location.<\/p>\n
St. Elmo, Colorado, is one of those too, with its 2,000 residents nowhere to be found in one of the best-preserved ghost towns in the United States. <\/p>\n
A lot of the original buildings are still standing, as they are in Goldfield, Arizona, a former mining town that is, like many of these locations, open to the public for a mosey about.<\/p>\n
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South Pass City, Wyoming, offers up one of the most historically-laden cities of all, a town that became the first US territory to offer women the right to vote in 1869, 51 years before the rest of the US followed suit.<\/p>\n
Coal mine fires have not been kind to some other locations though, with Centralia, Pennsylvania still struggling with the steam rising from its roads.<\/p>\n
It is one of the few locations on this list that is not a tourist destination, and it is more to do with the dangerous toxic substances than a lack of buildings to poke around in.<\/p>\n
The same cannot be said for the tourist town of Fairbank, Arizona, an infamous location now owned by the Bureau of Land Management which opened the town up as a pubic museum. <\/p>\n
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