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 twisterintexas
 
Location: I explore mostly Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas!
Gender: Female
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<Reply # 20 on 2/22/2010 2:18 AM >
|  | | | My bad, then. Maybe they were telling me about another place and I just had the place I found in my head.
Sorry about the misinformation, and thanks for the correction!
[last edit 2/22/2010 3:45 AM by twisterintexas - edited 1 times]
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Dokk
Location: Lewisville, Texas
Gender: Male
| |  | Re: Texas Ghost Towns
<Reply # 21 on 2/28/2010 2:14 AM >
| | | | Thurber started out as a coal mining town and when the T&P railroad went to oil fired locomotives, Thurber shifted from coal mining to clay and brick making, hence the brick streets in Ft. worth with the name "Thurber" Stamped into them. The unions didn't get into Thurber until the shift to brick making. At one point, the "company" actually fenced the whole town and had guard patrols to keep union organizers out. As stated, go to the restaurant by the smoke stack and get a key to the cemetery by leaving your driver's license. Many graves there have been "lost" due to cattle grazing the area and knocking many of the headstones over. Several have been found but are know known who they belong to but many more are yet to be discovered. Thurber was quite a sizable town at one point and there's a museum on the other side of the highway from the smokestack, well worth seeing as well as a few other restored buildings. At one point in time, there was a religious commune on the property somewhere, a group thats still around and called "The Family". Google it if you're interested. They were into a technique called Flirty Fishing. Head up to Mingus while you're in the area, kinda interesting there too. A topo map will reveal quite a few mine entries as well as tailings piles and trash pile and pits. Have fun but, as always, be careful.
"If I'm gonna get blamed for it, I might as well do it!" |
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Explorer Zero
   
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<Reply # 22 on 2/28/2010 6:41 AM >
| | | | back then they went by the name COG Children of God
there was a COG temple on Gus Thomason Rd in Dallas and their members showed up at our HS parties and hangout places to recruit
they even threw a party which some of us attend out of curiosity but alas they had no beer (and no fun of any other kind) so we split
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puravida9539
Location: Dallas Area
Gender: Male
Just give me a flashlight
| | Re: Texas Ghost Towns
<Reply # 23 on 2/28/2010 9:16 AM >
| | | | How much is there to actually see in Thurber?
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Imbroglio
Location: DFW
Gender: Male
The glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
| | | Re: Texas Ghost Towns
<Reply # 24 on 3/1/2010 6:37 AM >
| | | | Posted by puravida9539
How much is there to actually see in Thurber?
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Nothing. Thurber is weak, Mingus is better, but still not great.
Others that are maybe worth checking out:
Eliasville
Clairemont
Orla (Arguably the best in Texas)
Glenrio (Also arguably the best in Texas)
Eskota (Not much there, what is is pretty cool)
Belle Plain (Also not much there but ruins of the old college that closed down on the late 1800's; photographs well at night)
Medicine Mound (General Store & Gas Station)
Texola (A lot to see there)
Salt Flat & surrounding area
Near-ghost towns, or towns with large abandoned areas:
Vega
Mclean
Dorchester
Ranger
I've got pictures of all of these on my Flickr stream, but they're artsy night pictures so it might be hard to tell what yer lookin' at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nkerns/
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allybeth13
| | Re: Texas Ghost Towns
<Reply # 25 on 5/25/2010 12:46 AM >
| | | | Here are a few pictures taken in Thurber. Granted, not a lot to see. However my friend and I did find ourselves looking around one of the abandoned buildings behind the smokestack and since we were already there, we naturally went in to do some 'splorin'. I'm not sure what its original purpose was, but I do know that it was one of the industrial buildings. It was two-stories. The main room was a double-volume space. The bottom floor held a large pool of some sort, and the top floor was open to below and had a railing around it. Off to the side was just some old storage. The floors were rotted, so we didn't venture in all the way. Be careful, as this is in view of both the restaurant and the one house that seems to still be inhabited. Here are a few photos.
Below is the smokestack, seen from directly underneath:
Vine-covered doorway:
Old storage:
Smokestack, as seen from inside building:
This is why we couldn't really go any further:
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