Ghost Town - White Rock South Dakota
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- Have you ever driven through a ghost town and wondered what led to its demise and what it may have looked like in its prime? Many towns across North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota were formed in the mid to late 1800s with the arrival of a railroad. That is what happened at White Rock, South Dakota, in 1883-1884, when the Fargo and Southern Railroad built its line from Fargo, North Dakota, to Ortonville, Minnesota. The town peaked in the late 1800s and early 1900s, based on the high number of small family farms that were established in the area with large families. For a while, this supported a small main street, railroad, and a school. However, as farms got larger and family sizes shrunk, there were fewer people to support White Rock, which turned into a ghost town. Get some history on the town, see some pictures of White Rock in its prime, and some photos of how it has changed over time.
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Thank you for the presentation. The town might have had a chance if it were closer to a big city.
Seems like when a rail line dies, so does the towns along it. The rail line through my town has been abandoned and things are nothing like they were 40 years ago.
Nicolett MN was bypassed by a few miles when the railroad was built so they moved the town to the rail line. There were towns many places in southwestern/south central MN that soon disappeared because they were started away from a rail line.Way back virtually everything you needed came by rail, even firewood, no trees on the prairie until settlers planted them.
Or it becomes a yuppie tourist attraction.
You could almost say this is a South Dakota version of abandoned Detroit. Well without the abandon houses anyway. Although many sections of abandoned Detroit, do have empty lots like our seen in this video.
Also of geologic note just to the north of the tri-state point, the major DC current powerlines between the power plant north of Bismarck to the Dickinson station at Buffalo, cross the Bois De Sioux River.
Does anyone remember stopping at the bar in White Rock on the way to the dance hall in Effington in the late 60s. Early 70s coming from mn.
Does anyone remember stopping at the bar inwhite rock on the way to the dance hall inEffington sd. In the late 60s early 70 from mn.
What happens to abandoned properties? I mean, if there was a mortgage, a bank is taking loss for sure. Otherwise, all the equity built up over the years in those properties is lost, no? It reminds me a little of the Romans leaving Britain and all those rich villas going to decay with nobody to tend them or work the land the lord of the villa once had his minions work. Not the same I realize, but it's reminiscent.