Animas Forks Ghost Town

Animas Forks Ghost Town Animas Forks is located on a system of roads known as the Alpine Loop. The loop is a 65-mile (105 km) system of unpaved roads which connects the small mountain towns of Lake City, Ouray, and Silverton. Most of the land in the area is managed

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Ironton Ghost Town

Ironton Ghost Town Ironton Ghost Town, Ironton was a town in Ouray County, Colorado, United States. It lay south of the present town of Ouray. Ironton (aka Copper Glen) was built on flatter ground than surrounding towns. Settled in 1893, within three weeks three hundred buildings were being built. It

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Red Mountain Colorado September 2018 Free Wallpaper

Red Mountain Colorado Red Mountain Mining District Located off Hwy 550 near the crest of Red Mountain Pass—this is the site of the National Bell Mine. During its booming years, there were as many as 10,000 inhabitants living in Red Mountain Town. In all of its glory, it had over

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Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 New Orleans

Lafayette Cemetery No. 1 New Orleans Lafayette Cemetery No. 1, 1420 Washington Avenue, established in 1833 by the City of Lafayette. The square was acquired from Cornelius Hurst and the cemetery laid out by Benjamin Buisson, city surveyor. Part of the Livaudais Plantation which had been subdivided into city squares

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Watson Lake

  Watson Lake Watson Lake is one of two reservoirs at the Granite Dells, in Prescott, Arizona, that was formed in the early 1900s when the Chino Valley Irrigation District built a dam on Granite Creek.  The Granite Dells is a geological feature north of Prescott, Arizona. The Dells consist of exposed bedrock and large boulders of granite that

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Teter Rock Flint Hills Kansas

Teter Rock Flint Hills Kansas Teterville is a ghost town in Greenwood County, Kansas, It is located approximately 11 miles east of Cassoday. No buildings remain of this former community. Teterville was founded as an “oil town” sometime after the Teeter Oil Field was discovered around 1920. The oil field was named in honor of James Teter who

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Drinkwater & Schriver Mill Cedar Point Kansas

Drinkwater & Schriver Mill Cedar Point, Kansas The mill, which is also called the Cedar Point Mill, is owned by Drinkwater & Schriver Mill Inc., a Kansas non-profit corporation dedicated to saving the mill and maintaining it as an historic site, celebrating this exceptional 1875 Chase County, Kansas grist mill.

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Flint Hills Kansas July 2018 Free Wallpaper

Kansas Flint Hills The Flint Hills is a region in eastern Kansas and north-central Oklahoma named for the abundant residual flint eroded from the bedrock that lies near or at the surface. It consists of a band of hills stretching from Kansas to Oklahoma. The Flint Hills has the most dense

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