Belvidere Mills

My favorite is Muscotah in the northern part of Kansas. About 2 hours from me or so. It has the worlds biggest baseball.

Well, I gues I’m going to look for gold on the zumbro river. See ya…

Craigville near Effy😅

Used to live in Akron, IA for a short while; just a few miles to the east lies the remains of the unincorporated town of Ruble, IA --- more info. about this town can be found elsewhere on KZbin. My father also grew up in rural Mills county during the depression, near the unincorporated town of Folsom, IA -- nothing remains there, but an old acreage farmstead and a wayside preserve w/hiking trails by the same name, a mile up and across the road from where the town was once.

Most people don't know it, but in the early 1900s, thete were coal mines in Ankeny, Iowa.

I've been to Peshtigo. I grew up in Shawano. I'm so glad more of this story is being told. The story of O'Leary's cow in Chicago was a myth. Supposedly she was chastised for it. But much of the Great Lakes area was a huge forest land. And that whole area was a tinder box. Chicago, Peshtigo, Holland Michigan and much of the east of Holland was a huge tinderbox ready to go off. And we did not have the knowledge or equipment in those days to handle that. Many structures were wood built and we had to learn from that as well.

I began to hate IL in the 70's. Every year after it got worse.

How about Juliette ND? Pembina County. Used to have a bar, 2 churches, a grocery store and a post office. It’s all gone now.

Went to day care in the donohoe building when I was little. A couple of us with a worker would walk back the lunch cart to the main building using the tunnels. So creepy

The buildings are not abandoned, they are neglected! CMHI is still a functioning State Psychiatric Hospital.

I was born and raised in Old Hickory Village. I’m actually sitting in a parking at the corner of Lawrence St and 9th ave in the village right now… almost every house in the village, are the original homes. The guard posts still exist on the bridge that enters the village. The original shopping center in the village burned down 2 decades ago due to arson. The layout of the village was designed for specific purposes. The village is split in half, with Hadley Ave being the main road. One side of Hadley housed workers and execs. The other side housed families. Riverside drive has the biggest homes, built for execs. The home I grew up in, is on Hadley Ave. This town is full of memories. I don’t live in the Village anymore, but the connection is still there, and I spend a lot of time driving through the Village, or sitting in a parking lot.

There’s gold just south of international falls in the rivers

Im team Bonnie& Clyde

Lake City Iowa was the county seat then went to Rockwell City also

Funny thing is i have found gold in our creeks, rivers and lakes just flour gold and dang fine and some very small pickers if you call them that . But its there i found it in quite a few spots just nothing to make a racket but it sure is fun!

I’d recommend researching the town of Beaver in the Whitewater River valley north of Winona. The town kept getting buried by several feet of eroded soils over the course of several floods.

Another great story!

Thanks for having me! Looking forward to future collaborations!

So Illinois founded Utah.

Those must be your top 5. There are many others. FYI it’s pronounced POT ASH, not poat ash. It’s an important ingredient in fertilizer.

Thanks to you both for all you do to save history.

I live an hour away from Cardiff going to go look it at sometime

Saw the broken building multiple times when we would go outside

I went there 3rd floor

Lexington Carroll County please

Born and raised in Quincy, IL here. You got it right it sounds like (El+uh+noy) bro.

Ok I agree- ''let's keep History alive''...I'm a Life-long Illinois citizen and appreciate your very interesting content (not enough people realize how important accepting our 'past' is to navigate our future!)- posts like yours are very needed. But PLEASE if you're not AI Voice-- please learn to pronounce ''Illinois'' properly...it's NOT ''ELinois'', it's ILLINOIS. Thanks!!!

Salida and Cable are 2 ghost towns

Thanks for showing us this little slice of history, Dan.

Great video, I work at the Minorca Mine, it’s neat seeing the history of Elcor.

Good job, Dan. Lots of history in Cherokee.

Floyd Booth was the J I Case dealer in Cherokee until he was killed in a plane crash in 1955.

Fascinating... and tragic. And yeah, I was a bit lost at the beginning and trying to figure out how it tied into Powder Town!

El Annoy lol😂

it's been awhile since I've been online. Fordlandia really interesting. We've been having a weird winter. Temperature s in the 40's and 50's (F). Rain instead of snow. Oh well, maybe I'm done with the bugs. I've been reading a reissued book about the Peshtigo Fire and the Sugar Bushes. It's three books/articles about the fire on both sides of Green Bay. It's got a rather long title: The Great Fires in Wisconsin of 1871. The authors are Franklin Tilton, 1871; Wisconsin's Weather and Climate; Joseph M. Moran and Edward J. Hopkins, 2002; Tornadoes of Fire at Williamsonville, Wisconsin. October 8, 1871; Joseph M. Moran and E. Lee Somerville, 1990. Karen Vincent Humiston has a couple of talks about Peshtigo and the Sugar Bushes. She's working on a book titled The Sky was Brass, the Earth was Ashes. Hope all is well with you 😸. My cat decided I have been "petting" the tablet enough.

I can get to clay county in about 30 minutes. I'll have to check that out!

Great video!

Good production value in this one 👏

Looks familiar! I used to drive that highway all the time, as well. Thanks for the great history lesson!

Good video, but no list of SD ghost towns is complete without Capa!

I learned about Fordlandia by reading the Jimmy Buffett autobiography A Pirate Looks At 50

This was great can’t wait for next episode for part 2!