Episodes

  • Pinckneyville
    Oct 15 2024

    Pinckneyville was a town in Union County, South Carolina. The town was established in the 1790s as the seat of Pinckneyville District. It was envisioned as the "Charleston of the Upstate." When Pinckney District was divided into smaller districts, the courthouse was moved to Union. Pinckneyville started to die out.

    • National Register Listing
    • Pinckney District on Carolana
    • Wikipedia
    • Research Pinboard

    AI Voices by Eleven Labs

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    26 mins
  • Cataloochee
    Oct 1 2024

    The Cataloochee Valley is a remote area in Western North Carolina, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was never really a town, but is included on most lists of Ghost Towns in North Carolina.

    • Cataloochee: Center of the World - National Park Service Video
    • NPS Cataloochee Basin
    • Cataloochee Reunion
    • Serena, by Ron Rash
    • Research Pinboard

    AI Voices by Eleven Labs

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    28 mins
  • UPDATE: Hurricane Helene
    Sep 30 2024

    Hurricane Helene has not been kind to us. Here's a quick update on what to expect over the next few weeks.

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    3 mins
  • Hamburg
    Sep 17 2024

    Hamburg was a city in South Carolina on the Savannah River, across from Augusta. It was the terminus of the Charleston to Hamburg Railroad, the first regular passenger service in the US.

    • Henry Schulz and His Town of Hamburg
    • The Untold Story of Hamburg, SC
    • Prince Rivers

    AI Voices by Eleven Labs

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    30 mins
  • Auraria
    Sep 3 2024

    The town of Auraria was the site of the first gold rush in Georgia. It was a boom town on a mountain ridge, but died out as the nearby town of Dahlonega grew more prominent.

    • Auraria : the story of a Georgia gold-mining town / E. Merton Coulter
    • Etowah River Mine Tunnel Trip
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    23 mins
  • Taphophiles
    Aug 20 2024

    This is an episode from an old podcast series that I started some years ago. It's about old cemeteries and headstones, which often are the only remnants left of a ghost town. Here's a link to the original blog post...

    The Stone Carvers

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    44 mins
  • The Ghosts of Ebenezer
    Aug 6 2024

    Ebenezer was one of the first settlements in the Georgia Colony. Displaced Salzburgers from Austria traveled to the new world and settled on a tributary of the Savannah River. It was also the site of a terrible tragedy during Sherman's March to the Sea.

    Links:

    • Old Ebenezer
    • Wikipedia Entry
    • Betrayal at Ebenezer
    • Johann Martin Boltzius
    • Georgia Salzburger Society
    • Paddling trips
      • Cypress Adventures
      • Lowcountry Unfiltered does Ebenezer Creek
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    23 mins
  • Ghost Town in the Sky and other Fake Ghost Towns
    Jul 23 2024

    This episode is a departure from our normal ghost town explorations. In today's episode we look at fake ghost towns, specifically, western amusement parks that are now defunct. The parks covered in today's episode include Tweetsie Railroad (still going strong), Ghost Town in the Sky, Rebel Railroad, Frontierland, and Echo Valley.

    Blog posts about Echo Valley:

    • Memories of Echo Valley
    • Even More Echo Valley
    • Echo Valley Photographic Proof
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    34 mins