Could an entire town be wiped off the map by pollution? That’s exactly what happened to Picher, Oklahoma. Once home to thousands, it became so toxic that no one could stay. But how did it get this bad ...

More than 40 years after the EPA deemed it a Superfund site, cleanup in the Tar Creek area in Ottawa County is seeing ...

Production increased under the Goldfield Consolidated Mines Co. in 1916 and a decade later by the Eagle Picher ... Sherman. Ghost Towns of Arizona. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969.

In the 1890s, the Bighorns were a vast, rugged territory with few roads beyond wagon pathways. While horses and oxen could ...

A Florida buyer has expressed interest in purchasing the abandoned Ghost Town in the Sky amusement park in Maggie Valley. The potential buyer envisions a family-friendly venue with country music ...

Judy Slack, a local historian and the vice president of the Big Horn City Historical Society, said building a city on the top of Bald Mountain — a peak more ...

Outsiders and locals alike can agree Oklahoma has an abundance of town names that are hard to ... and it is said James' ghost still haunts the area. Some even say you can hear the sound of wagon ...

Ontario is a province rife with ghost towns — once-thriving communities that met untimely ends. One such town is Depot Harbour near Parry Sound, which was once a thriving trade port in Georgian ...

The town of Bodie lies around 75 miles southeast of Lake Tahoe and 12 miles southeast of Bridgeport, at an elevation of 8,379ft. However, it has since become a ghost town and is now recognised as ...