Abandoned North Dakota
Title | Abandoned North Dakota PDF eBook |
Author | John Piepkorn |
Publisher | America Through Time |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2020-11-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781634992749 |
A curtain flutters in the window of an abandoned farmhouse. Textbooks from the 1940s lay scattered on the floor of a one-room schoolhouse. Receipts for a load of grain sit on the desk of a ghost town grain elevator. If you are a person who likes exploring these abandoned places with camera in hand, North Dakota is a target-rich environment. Drive down any gravel road, and soon you will come across a relic from the past. This is why author John Piepkorn loves North Dakota. John Piepkorn is a photographer who has had a lifelong interest in abandoned places. On multiple trips across North Dakota in the last twenty-five years, he has documented hundreds of places that were once filled with life. Today, those places stand empty. John has made an effort to document the churches, schools, and abandoned farms that dot the North Dakota landscape. Each place has a story to tell, and even in the decay, beauty can be found.
Ghosts of North Dakota
Title | Ghosts of North Dakota PDF eBook |
Author | Troy Larson |
Publisher | Sonic Tremor Media |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-08 |
Genre | Ghost towns |
ISBN | 9780989096935 |
Ghosts of North Dakota, Volume 3 is a 110 page, hardbound, full-color coffee table book featuring some of the best photos from the Ghosts of North Dakota project- photos of ghost towns, near-ghost towns, and abandoned places across the state of North Dakota, plus comments from the photographers, historical tidbits, and more. Places in this book include Antler, Marmarth, Arena, Sanish, Haymarsh, and Bathgate. Volume 3 also includes a 19 page special section on the abandoned Fortuna Air Force Station, and a map which includes most of the places featured in Volumes 1 through 3.
Abandoned North Dakota
Title | Abandoned North Dakota PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary Hargrove |
Publisher | America Through Time |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781634991971 |
What compelled those who settled North Dakota's vast prairies? Summers are characterized by heatwaves, drought, and violent thunderstorms. Winter is harsh, with crippling temperatures and surprise blizzards. North Dakota is a land of extremes, creating a unique, raw, and dangerous beauty. As the railroad industry flourished in the late 1800s, the Northern Pacific Railway quickly built its way west across the northern Dakota Territory, birthing new towns as it went. A strong advertising campaign and the promise of land attracted flocks of workers and immigrants. Business was booming, and Dakota Territory was growing. By the mid-twentieth century, new technology rendered many of the once vibrant railroad towns useless. Residents trickled out as employment prospects dwindled and once lively communities were left to decay, alone in the elements. This book is a photographic journey that documents these remains. It showcases images that tell haunting tales of another time, reminding us how illusory human permanence truly is.
Ghosts of North Dakota
Title | Ghosts of North Dakota PDF eBook |
Author | Troy Larson |
Publisher | Sonic Tremor Media |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013-02-14 |
Genre | Ghost towns |
ISBN | 9780989096904 |
A photographic look at North Dakot'a's ghost towns and abandoned places, including historical data and stories from residents and the photographers.
Spooky Creepy North Dakota
Title | Spooky Creepy North Dakota PDF eBook |
Author | Lori L. Orser |
Publisher | Schiffer Pub Limited |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780764335679 |
Travel the prairies of North Dakota to discover ghost stories, rural legends, and haunted places that dot this state. Visit the haunted San Haven Sanitorium, where over 1100 people died of tuberculosis and eerie spirits still linger! Travel to college campuses where students died, but never left! Learn about haunted historic homes, the ranch cabin where President Teddy Roosevelt's ghost remains, along with more modern homes whose former residents still make their presences known in ways both eerie and physical. Puzzle over three mysterious and famous murders in North Dakota. Do the victims still haunt the plains? Visit sacred sites of the earliest residents of North Dakota, and learn about their mysterious histories. Did Satanists connected to the Son of Sam murders have a hideout in the ghost town of Tagus? Spooky North Dakota will haunt your dreams!
North Dakota Place Names
Title | North Dakota Place Names PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas A. Wick |
Publisher | |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780911007114 |
Deserted Villages
Title | Deserted Villages PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca M. Seifried |
Publisher | Digital Press at the University of North Dakota |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2021-02-20 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781736498682 |
Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean is a collection of case studies examining the abandonment of rural settlements over the past millennium and a half, focusing on modern-day Greece with contributions from Turkey and the United States. Unlike other parts of the world, where deserted villages have benefited from decades of meticulous archaeological research, in the eastern Mediterranean better-known ancient sites have often overshadowed the nearby remains of more recently abandoned settlements. Yet as the papers in this volume show, the tide is finally turning toward a more engaged, multidisciplinary, and anthropologically informed archaeology of medieval and post-medieval rural landscapes.The inspiration for this volume was a two-part colloquium organized for the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in San Francisco. The sessions were sponsored by the Medieval and Post-Medieval Archaeology Interest Group, a rag-tag team of archaeologists who set out in 2005 with the dual goals of promoting the study of later material cultural heritage and opening publication venues to the fruits of this research. The introduction to the volume reviews the state of the field and contextualizes the archaeological understanding of abandonment and post-abandonment as ongoing processes. The nine, peer reviewed chapters, which have been substantially revised and expanded since the colloquium, offer unparalleled glimpses into how this process has played out in different places and locations. In the first half, the studies focus on long-abandoned sites that have now entered the archaeological record. In the second half, the studies incorporate archival analysis and ethnographic interviews-alongside the archaeologists' hyper-attention to material culture-to examine the processes of abandonment and post-abandonment in real time.With contributions from Ioanna Antoniadou, Todd Brenningmeyer, William R. Caraher, Marica Cassis, Timothy E. Gregory, Miltiadis Katsaros, Kostis Kourelis, Anthony Lauricella, Dimitri Nakassis, David K. Pettegrew, Richard Rothaus, Guy D. R. Sanders, Isabel Sanders, Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory, Olga Vassi, Bret Weber, and Miyon Yoo.