Volume 1 - Southern Ontario.
Well-illustrated with photos and maps this book has the best 80 ghost towns in Ontario described in Ron Brown's previous books.
Ghost Towns of Ontario: a Field Guide
One of the few original buildings still standing tall and proud is the Gilbert Lutheran Church. The building has not been appreciably altered since the day it was built, and the walls whisper stories of long ago.
While often this is merely our imagination at play, in some cases, these ghost towns are indeed said to be haunted.
Join Andrew Hind in exploring over a dozen villages across the districts of Parry Sound and Nipissing, the Muskokas, and the Haliburton Highlands.
Black Hawk was a secondary part of the gold rush. Located down the gulch from Gregory Diggings, it was probably named because a mill erected there came from the Black Hawk Company of Rock Island, Illinois. While water was scarce to its ...
The vision was witnessed by Rowley W. Murphy , former seaman and marine historian . According to Murphy , the event or experience took place in August of 1910. At the time Murphy was a youth , but he was not alone in experiencing the ...
Montana Ghost Towns and Gold Camps: A Pictorial Guide
Early on, there were plans for an array of factories: a chemical plant to manufacture acetate, a kindling wood factory, a cooperage to make barrel staves, and a factory to make wagon wheel hubs and wood chips for brewing beer.
Ron Brown's Ghost Towns of Ontario 2 and Ghost Towns of Ontario are probably the most high profile perpetrators of this myth, but it has also appeared in numerous newspaper accounts and on websites. 5. Much of the information on Thomas ...