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Gary
B. Speck
&
Gary B. Speck
Publications
Researching
and exploring ghost towns throughout the
United
States & Canada since 1968.
ONLINE 15 YEARS!
SINCE 1994!
Preserving the history of
communities and other places
of habitation through education.
What’s NEW at Ghost Town
LATEST UPDATE: Nov 18, 2009
In the past 30 days we’ve made
these changes:
·
UPDATED our
monthly feature: GHOST TOWN OF THE MONTH (Nov 02).
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LINKS:
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GENEALOGY:
·
GHOST TOWNS:
1. ADDED NEW FEATURE: ON
THE ROAD AGAIN - A series of pages devoted to traveling
2. ADDED NEW photos (taken Jul, 2008) to the
3. ADDED NEW PAGE
for BELMONT,
4. UPDATING NEW
PAGES!!!
Ghost
Town USA Column Index
This is an index to all of the ghost towns that have appeared in
5. UPDATE: Currently working on captions
for the photos for my new ghost town book being published by a major
6. ONGOING: Continuing to add GPS coordinates - where
known to the state and individual location pages. This will be ongoing through the year at the
request of several readers. Also posting
updated state lists, adding numerous reader submissions – this has been a long time
in coming! Thanks to all who have
submitted locations for inclusion on these pages. As I have mentioned before, only a SMALL PORTION of my entire ghost town files are
posted, especially from states where I have extensive files. At least a half-dozen states have well over
1000 locations each in my files for that state.
1. ONGOING: Updating a GPS page
supplementing my monthly in-print Ghost
Town USA column as featured Western
& Eastern Treasures Magazine.
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LICENSE PLATE
COLLECTING:
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MISC:
1.
I am still looking
for historical
information and photographs on the Salton Sea area
and Imperial
County, CA. We are anticipating publication of a very
detailed Ghost
Town Guru Guide to the
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PLEASE NOTE: IF you
find any broken or dead links please advise. IF you
do, please let me know specifically which page the problem is
on, as well as which link is broken. I
have over 350 individual web pages, along with many photos, so you need to be
specific so I can find it AND fix it.
Thanks.
Freelance writing and photography:
Celebrating over 30 years of continuous publication,
with over 530 articles (as of Sep 2008) and well over 2500 photos published in
22 different publications. My first
published article was in March 1978.
·
AUTHOR
of the Book “Dust in the Wind – A
Guide to American Ghost Towns”
·
Contributing
Editor for
“Western & Eastern
Treasures Magazine”
·
Author
of THE monthly column “Ghost Town USA”
Featured monthly in Western &
Eastern Treasures magazine, since April 1984!
·
SEARCHING FOR MY ROOTS THROUGH:
GenealogY
License Plate Collecting:
·
Want
List:
·
Trade
List:
·
General
collecting information:
License Plate Collecting clubs:
·
Automobile License Plate Collector's
Association ( ALPCA )
·
Number Plate Collector's Club-Australia
1. Visit
NPCC’s
main website.
2. North American membership coordinator for NPCC
GHOST TOWNS
Those two words promise adventure to thousands of
Americans who take to the highways and byways of this country in search of
these lost or forgotten habitations.
But what are they?
Curled wood battens peel away from the facade above a sagging, weathered
canopy, standing only by virtue of a few rusty nails. Glassless windows stare
blankly onto a rutted dirt street overgrown with native vegetation. Flaking
paint of an unreadable advertisement is barely visible on the desiccated,
chocolate colored wood wall. A rusting bed frame leans against the storefront
under a broken window with a faded "Visitors Wel..."
painted in gold paint. A slight breeze blows through open window casements and doorless entries, rustling the decaying debris of a dead
town. This is all that remains of the hopes and dreams of hundreds of people.
People whose hopes and dreams have evaporated and blown away like Dust in the
Wind.
So, what is a ghost town?
"A Ghost Town is a town or community that at
one time had a commercial or population center, and is either wholly abandoned
or faded greatly from its peak, and now is just a shadow of its former
self."
Ghost towns are one of
Historians estimate there may be as many as 50,000 ghost towns scattered across
the
If you like the lost and forgotten sites, classic ghost towns, near-ghost
towns, or state protected ones, Ghost Town USA has them all. You
can read all about them monthly in the pages of Western
& Eastern Treasures Magazine, or
you can explore different locations on this website. Please note that the ghost towns featured on
these pages are only a tiny part of our entire file of ghost towns.
When you are out exploring, always remember how fragile these rickety relics of
To begin exploring these rickety relics of
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