ARENA GHOST TOWN - Abandoned on the Open Plains of North Dakota
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- Arena was once a bustling farming community on the plains of North Dakota. Struggling with the dust bowl and the Great Depression, the residents gradually left. The one roomed school house closed in 1961, but the town held on until 1996 when its Post Office closed and Arena officially became a ghost town . Join us as we explore the unusual remains of this once quaint township.
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In the open plains of North Dakota we came across this small ghost town with a really unusual church.
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In North Dakota (called "Nort" Dakota by locals and Minnesotans) the Welk family farm exists as a tribute to the state's best known celebrity.
To be fair Peggy Lee is also from there and much more desirable musically but that's pop culture.
Pretty Neat. I'm amazed by so much farmland not being used. We should be encouraging farming.
I love the old relics of ghost towns long forgotten. History long gone. But all the more interesting. Too bad people leave so much behind 😊. Good job you two. Ty.
Us too, Tina. Thank you and Merry Christmas.
What a lonely place this is, especially with the wind sweeping in. The town survived 35 years after the school closed. I don't know how to interpret that.🤔 Even with an access to railroads, it just seems so isolated. With 150 people... yes, there are a lot of structures, you mentioned, that are gone, unfortunately. They would have been interesting to see.
Thank you, Andrea and Steven, this was super interesting, as always.
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You’re welcome Rhonda. It was very interesting. Especially how the church has started to split. Must have been a hard life especially in the winter.
The wind in this case was such a soft sound of the grass it was a lovely. Your tick concerns reminded me of when my husband came back from dear hunting, he would throw all his clothes off and yell...TICK CHECK. He was so weirded out by them. I would always find several while laughing at his being so creeped out. Thank you both for another great adventure.
Glad you enjoyed our explore.That's funny about your husband. We do the same with the tick check. We also started to spray all our clothes and boots with permethrin which seemed to help.
Merry Christmas, Connie and we'll see you next Tuesday for another adventure.
The wind in the grass so beautiful and evocative of dreams and memories
Who has seen the wind?
Neither I nor you.
But when the leaves hang trembling,
The wind is passing through.
Who has seen the wind?
Neither you nor I.
But when the trees bow down their heads,
The wind is passing by.
1830-1894 Christina Rossetti
That's beautiful Kris. Thank you.
Merry Christmas. See you on our another adventure next week.
What an educative video, so well composed, excellent photography. The two of you are a class act!
Really appreciate your kind words. Thank you so much. Hope you continue to enjoy our explores.
What beautiful shots you got of the church there! Just stunning, the wind in the grass .. you really nailed it.
It looks like that Church was what fell on the Wicked Witch of the West !!!
Thanks Charley. The church was amazing. Unfortunately it probably won't be long before it totally collapses. Hope whoever has bought that property can do something with it.
I do hope who ever is building there will refurbish what they can.what a beautiful place Thanks guys 👍❤️🇺🇸
We do too Gayle. The church is beautiful.
Merry Christmas. See you next week for another adventure
Good evening. This is ted from texas. I definitely enjoy you exploring and showing us exciting. Abandoned places and things. just like Oneder Hussy. Thank you
Glad you enjoy it! Merry Christmas. See you Tuesday for another adventure.
Hi Steve and Andrea - so interesting, trying to imagine the place when it was a thriving community. Reminds me of Walnut Grove in the old TV series of Little House on the Prairie - a gentler time. Happy Christmas guys.
Happy Christmas Brian. We've actually filmed a couple of places that Laura Ingalls lived. You should check out our vids if you haven't seen them. Certainly gentler times.
Another interesting PIN in the Atlas. Really appreciate your tender attention to the cemetery and the graves - especially the little one. Can visualize the town residents walking to the church building during the various seasons. Also children walking and racing to the schoolhouse. Fascinating how the desolation evokes images and emotions. Thanks for sharing. Bon Voyage!
The ND winters are bitter. How they managed back in those days amazes us. Glad you enjoyed our explore David. Happy Christmas to you both. See you on our next adventure.
@@PinInTheAtlas Yes, indeed! Happy Christmas! And, Blessed New Year! Bon Voyage!
Classic Pin in the Atlas explore ................ Good Video.
Thanks for watching Bill. Glad you enjoyed it. Merry Christmas
Yes of course Merry Christmas to you both.
Well I'm glad to see you blokes prepared yourself for the Tick invasion, them little mongrels are a nuisance and I hope Steve didn't get too many on him, so yet another abandoned town you have come across and always amazes me that they leave perfectly good homes and just walk away, ok, good job again and look forward to some more, Cheers
The spray seemed to have worked this time Brian. Another adventure next Tuesday. Merry Christmas.
Hi there, Stephen & Andrea. Just a suggestion about keeping bugs and other things from crawling under your pants legs to get on your skin. Wear longer socks like Tube Socks, that reach up to near the Knee, roll them to the ankles, wrap the pants legs around your ankles, and then pull the socks over your pants legs toward the Knee. No bugs should be able to crawl under your pants to get to the skin; everything will be on the outside of your clothes!! To see them easier, light colored pants and socks work better as they are more visible.
We sprayed all our clothes and boots with permethrin Cary, which seemed to help. Good idea with the socks though.
@@PinInTheAtlas This is a method I’ve used for many years ! “If you close the door the Varmints can’t get in!!” At least one Tick didn’t read the ‘memo’ about the Spray. Use the spray & the sock system and it should possibly solve the problem!!
Another beautiful place. It would be a little hard during the Winter. But then again, I live in the mountains' year round. Winter is the price you pay. For living in paradise, the other three seasons.
Not sure if I could have taken the wind and snow back in those days though! Yes agreed, living in the mountains is beautiful.
Lucky you - you two were there before it got cold!
That looks like one of several places I've passed along I-90: always wondered about them, but as you know, many of the farm towns there are miles from anything.
Always loved those "milk carton" grain elevators: you still see a lot of those in use in that part of the country, as well as in Alberta, Canada.
We love ND apart from the winter! Such an underrated state. We filmed this a while ago before it got too cold.
Those are purple cone flowers. There used to be an upright Edison H-19 model phonograph in the yellow house that played the really thick flat records. The school that was there was built of brick and had a couple of classrooms in it. I think the wood frame school was moved into town later on. Interesting that there is a newer built house there. Enjoy your adventures!
Thanks Colby. Yes I think the school was moved. Not sure about the new house though.
Happy New Year and see you on our next adventure
A sad place, in the middle of nowhere, being swallowed up by the grass. Only memories left now. And always, the wind.
So true Lesley.
Merry Christmas. See you next week for another adventure.
@@PinInTheAtlas, a Merry Christmas to the both of you! I hope you have a great holiday!
Awesome place, great video! I learned my lesson on ticks and tall grass, that all sounded very familiar 😂 That one "2019" house looks mid century, about the same age as mine (1950's)🤔. I would have been dumb enough to go inside some of those places, glad you guys kept it safe!
Yup, safety first! The floors were too rotten to walk around inside. We would have loved to have seen the town as it was back in the day. Wouldn't have wanted to live out on the plains though. Too cold and windy especially in the winter.
Yeah.... I'm not a fan of cold and wind ether...
That church reminds me of something we used to say as children.
Here's the church
And here's the steeple
Open it up
And here's the people.
That church looks sad.
I remember that rhyme Diane. Yes it does look sad doesn't it? Not long before it totally crumbles.
How sad this place seems, it would be such a dreary, hard place to live and work.
the wind itself I imagine is incessant, makes for a bad hair day constantly. It just feels depressing to me, nothing to look forward too.
I imagine it snows pretty bad there too. You two have a wonderful Christmas, hopefully somewhere warm and toasty with a nice hot toddy.
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Totally agree with everything you said Lorna. Hard winters windy hot summers!
Merry Christmas to you too and we’ll see you on our next adventure.
Another awesome adventure with my pin and coffee merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Raymond. Enjoy the holidays
Hey, you two have a great Xmas too and a great New Year Cheers Brian & Mary
Thank you. Merry Christmas to you too. See you next Tuesday for another adventure
Great find! Had a bit of a eerie feeling about it. Thanks guys. Be careful of red rings around the tick bites. Looks like a bullseye. Means lyme disease maybe. I had one last summer but i don't think I got lyme disease but it itched real bad an took along time to go away. Even left a scar.
We spray all our clothes Chris and check to make sure we don't have any hitch-hikers!
Interesting explore! We use to have towns like that here in the early 1960s, but they have all been removed and put under plow! Flowers along the roads are usually the only hint there were buildings there once. Lillie's and Irises are good indicators. The coneflowers like what you found are a little trickier due to the wild varieties, but some are clearly not wild! Once, I stopped and investigated a stand of trees in the middle of a field where everything that could be farmed ... was farmed and I found a stone marker for a town that was no longer on the map.
It's such a shame when total towns have been razored or left to rot. That's why we attempt to document as many of these places as possible - to hold onto the history. We've noticed that places are being excluded from maps too!
Glad you found our explore interesting Norm. Merry Christmas and we'll see you on our next adventure.
@@PinInTheAtlas Yes ... I'm afraid we're well into the digital dark ages! You can't plug them into your GPS, but the old paper maps often have some of the best information! You have a Merry Christmas too!
@@normstephens8354 totally agree Norm. We still use the paper maps as well.
Nice explore.
Thank you Richard.
If you had a drone you could fly it through the houses and not worry about the houses coming down on you.
That is true Tommy. But we don't have a drone or a licence. We doubt if we'll get one now, what with all the new regulations - unfortunately.
Interesting place Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Philip. See you on our next adventure
What? No out house? Oh my!😊
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@@PinInTheAtlas looked familiar to me.
Hello I seen the church and had to stop. Looking at the cross and the sides reminded me of a open BIBLE and in a couple of weeks will be CHRISTMAS and remembering the true meanig of the day.The town may be gone from the looks of it but people around the area and others will see i hope the image of a open BIBLE 🙏🤔
Ah that’s a nice way to view it Case. Thanks.
Merry Christmas and we’ll see you next week for another adventure.
Some one must are. The grass has been mowed recently.
Thanks!
Thank you Tina. We really appreciate it. Merry Christmas. 🎅🎄
@@PinInTheAtlas Ty Merry Christmas 🎁🎄
I guess you can't do a trip to the Loo when you going to fall through the floor!
So true Craig! 😃
it might be possible the 2 sides of the church that are falling away were ad-ons? Gramma Candy
I guess it's possible, but looking through the window it looks like one building.
I wonder who the new homeowners are?
Hope they save the church!
How do u think tics take to Steve more than you,, Andrea 😂. Just jesting 😊
Hhmmm. Not sure but they definitely like him more than they do me. Which I’m not complaining about 🤣
@@PinInTheAtlas yup ,, I wouldn’t complain either 😂😂😏😏🤔🦟🦟