Today, as I travel through Georgia’s many economically distressed towns, I wonder about their future - and which of them will be tomorrow’s ghost towns. But a series of devastating floods in the 1880s ravaged the mills by the 1920s, the town was abandoned. At the mill’s height, 500 workers tended its 4,000 spindles. In addition to Georgia’s first paper mill, it contained homes, stores, gristmills, sawmills - and later a four-story brick textile mill that became the economic mainstay. In later years, the village became a town.
Although the phrase ghost town might call to mind the tumbleweed-strewn roads and abandoned wooden storefronts of the Old West, ours tell a different tale. Lindsay Durham developed medicines from his extensive herb garden there and opened a sprawling sanatorium. Photos by Notley Hawkins Abandoned buildings, paranormal folklore, and historic relics cast an eerie and intriguing atmosphere over Missouri’s ghost towns. Scull Shoals began as a frontier village around 1792.Įarly on, Dr. Frontier VillageĪnother recent visit was to the ruins of Scull Shoals along the Oconee River, deep in the Oconee National Forest in Greene County.
Today, all that remains are a circa 1810 Methodist Church, a circa 1918 general store and a cemetery with Revolutionary War-era graves. It is located on the Osage River a few miles upstream from Roscoe MO. But Wrightsboro did not survive, perhaps because of its isolation. The first and foremost (ghost town in the county) is Monegaw Springs, MO.
