The Ghost Town of Mortimer, NC.

[@johncanetta6708]

1st time viewer, really enjoyed it!

[@JamesRobertSmith]

Thanks! It's a nice area.

[@pamelapaxton2244]

Thanks James, my father worked there in ccc’s after he had worked originally in the Smokies. Still trying to find out if he helped with the flood or not.

[@sherrymesser7540]

Does the area still flood? Because I figured that the way the trains tressel was across the river it may have been what caused the flood when the river rose and washing out debree and it got pushed up against it causing the river to lose it's flow and every one knows how a damn can be when it can't hold anymore..

[@JamesRobertSmith]

Yes, it still floods from time to time. I don't think I can recall a flood on the level of the ones that killed the town, though. The National Forest Service did, however, remove half of the Mortimer Campground due to flood fears.

[@sbelle024]

This is awesome... thinking of going here tomorrow actually. Are there any good campsites you might recommend?

[@JamesRobertSmith]

Belle Alll of the campsites at Mortimer Campground are excellent. Pisgah National Forest facility.

[@andyfeimsternfei8408]

That's actually the 3rd floor of the building. Bottom 2 floors buried by silt and soil washed off Grandfather Mountain.

[@JamesRobertSmith]

People don't understand how much silt and rock can be deposited in a major flood like that one.

[@sherrymesser7540]

It's nearly gone just like all that virgin timber that was clear cut. I I turly think it is strange how God can work that way.

[@JamesRobertSmith]

Sherry Messer When they denuded the mountains of timber, the town began to decline. So sad, as you say. Sometimes when I'm hiking in the forests I will happen upon metal pipe and concrete and realize I am walking among what were houses, completely absorbed by the woods.