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Ghost Towns of Washington.
« on: March 15, 2013, 03:14:33 AM »
I've been looking at their page lately.  A lot of neat stuff.  The 1892 photo of Index caught my attention.


http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 05:00:57 AM »
Nice link, these old towns are quite interesting.

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 12:07:27 PM »
Very cool link! Thanks for posting.

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 12:12:05 PM »
Great post! I am looking forward to exploring some local mining claims from
 The past I picked up a detector and have a little sluice box andeall the needed
 Tools.Problem is the surgery I had in January still has me in a full leg cast still
 Enough Titanium in my ankle now I hope it does not set off my detector....lol

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #4 on: March 16, 2013, 10:49:20 AM »
 :tup: cool link

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #5 on: March 20, 2013, 08:42:48 AM »
very cool site.  I would like to visit a few of them.   :tup:

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #6 on: March 20, 2013, 09:05:27 AM »
that is cool

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #7 on: March 20, 2013, 09:43:29 AM »
very cool hope to check some out this summer

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #8 on: March 20, 2013, 09:47:11 AM »
 :tup: love going hiking, that'd be an awesome incentive to go scout for some of those areas. Cool link :)

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #9 on: March 20, 2013, 10:26:47 AM »
A couple of years ago I was asked to be a pall-bearer for an old friend that lived in Molson when he was younger.  He is buried in the Molson Cemetery beside his wife and son that preceded him in death.  Beautiful area.  Still people living there, but mostly just cattle ranching now.
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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2013, 10:58:58 AM »
ive been to quite a few on that guys list in douglas county. the one that really struck me was the farmer cemetary. not sure why i was walking through it but i was and noticed that just about half of the graves there were young children and infants

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #11 on: March 20, 2013, 11:27:32 AM »
That gold mine near Republic cranked out a few ounces of gold! Very cool site!
I felt like a one legged cat trying to bury a terd on a frozen pond!

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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #12 on: March 20, 2013, 11:42:02 AM »
ive been to quite a few on that guys list in douglas county. the one that really struck me was the farmer cemetary. not sure why i was walking through it but i was and noticed that just about half of the graves there were young children and infants

When I first came to Washington in 1968, there was a store and gas station at the intersection of Hwy 2 and 172.  I got gas there.  No trace of it exists today.  Only the old Grange Hall still stands there.  In 1970, my uncle and cousins were trail-biking (motorcycles) in the hills of Mass. and stopped for lunch at the site of an old farmhouse.  We discovered that the clearing we were resting in was the family cemetery, and all the headstones had fallen over.  We brushed the leaves off them and found that more than half of the stones were infants and children who died in the 1700's.  One memorable inscription read: "___ ____ - Age 7  - Fell out of a tree".  Child mortality was greater back then.
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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #13 on: March 20, 2013, 11:48:27 AM »
Been to several of the mines on here. Pretty cool link
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Re: Ghost Towns of Washington.
« Reply #14 on: March 20, 2013, 12:00:48 PM »
Some neat info.
I have been to several of the mines around Index, I dont go into them only because Im chicken chit. :yike:
Well at least Im honest. :dunno:

 


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