Field notes & histories

Category: <span>Ghost Towns</span>

Ghost Towns

How vegetation conceals foundations while preserving a different kind of historical landscape.

Ghost Towns

A step-by-step explanation of discovery, speculation, infrastructure, decline and preservation.

Ghost Towns

A checklist for more accurate captions, articles and travel videos.

Ghost Towns

Why settlements built by one employer were efficient, close-knit and economically vulnerable.

Ghost Towns

A famous mining town documented during a quieter, partly abandoned period.

Ghost Towns

A practical framework for understanding why communities shrink, relocate or disappear.

Ghost Towns

A former iron-mining community photographed during the Great Depression.

Ghost Towns

A former gold-mining center recorded by Arthur Rothstein for the federal government.

Ghost Towns

A Gulf-region lumber town documented by federal photographers after abandonment.

Ghost Towns

A remote canyon mining site reached by a demanding route in Death Valley country.