Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Two "Ghost Towns!"

  This is the story of two "Ghost Towns."
  One is, or was, right in our area.
  I can't find the other! Sort of!
  The first was a community called
Edgerton, in Lackawanna County
  It would have been part of Archbald
had it survived. But it didn't.
  A strike, and an impossible dream to
tunnel through the mountain did the place
in around 1905,
  I found out about Edgerton from my
friend Dale Keklock who has helped
write a book about the place.
  He recently took me on a 4-wheel
drive through some heavy woods to
show off the foundations of several
buildings that once served the small coal
mining community.
  I did a story on the place for ECTV.
  I never realized that, long before
Laurel Run or Centralia, we had a area
town that just sort of vanished!
  The other "Ghost Town" is still there,
and still alive, but I just can't find it!
   It's the town of Deadwood in
Wyoming!
   Deadwood is famous as the town where
Wild Bill Hickok was shot and killed as
he held the now infamous poker hand of
"Aces and 8's!"
   I visited Deadwood on my recent trip
out west. But I can't find any of my video
of the place!
   I did take a few still pictures. But all of
my video, which included the spot where
Wild Bill was gunned down, the town's
gambling casinos, and the train
layout we found there has simply
disappeared! There's got to be "ghosts"
at work here!!!!
   It seems kind of funny that I found the
ghost town that isn't there any more....but
lost the one that's still thriving! 
   Hope you know where your town is,
whether "ghost or not", and that all your
NEWS is good!






































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