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Old maps hide towns that just vanished, found 3 in my county
Pulled a 1907 plat map from the county archive last week, matched it to current satellite view and counted 14 ghost towns, 3 with no trace left at all. Anyone else hit this when digging through old records?
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vera_sanchez11d agoMost Upvoted
Honestly, that "3 with no trace left at all" part hit me hard. My buddy Todd did the same thing with an 1874 map of his county in Missouri, and he found a whole mill town called Harpers Ford that's now just a cow pasture. He spent a weekend walking the field with a metal detector and found a bunch of old square nails and a rusted horseshoe, but nothing else, not even a foundation stone. It's wild to think a whole community of like 50 people just got swallowed up by grass and time.
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