The story of rural towns often starts with a booming industry around a natural resource and a bust when the demand changes. Tupper Lake, New York fits that mold, but a long dormant eyesore on its picturesque lake could benefit from the fact that the region’s natural resource is fueling another demand.
“Go West Young man, and grow up, with the country.”
In the middle of Western Kansas farmland in Gove County sits Monument Rocks, a chalk formation that peaks out of ground creating a strange landscape
Platted in 1886 and incorporated 4 years later, Synder has pretty much had a population in the 300s ever since it was founded.
Very little remains of Sim, Morton County, North Dakota. A crumbling brick home being one of the few structures left.
In a 2018 interview with Stamford, Texas mayor James Decker, he talks about the challenges ahead for an area that has been slowly dying. Not surprisingly he sees better days ahead. That’s probably what got him elected.
For sale, old brewery on 2 acres with over 150 years of history in a small town just over an hour from Chicago. What are you waiting for?
Lost Americana is going a bit off the topic from looking at fading small rural towns, for a brief few posts to explore the few
As social distancing becomes the norm, are drive-ins are making a return. Sadly it may may not last.
Like many small rural high schools enrollments were continuing to shrink and the consolidation of schools is an almost annual occurrence in many state.
Even though Texas is one of the fastest growing states over the last two decades, some of its counties have seen the highest percent of population decline of any state in the last 50 years
Win a 16×20 inch signed photo if you guess all the 10 states in these photos. After 25 years of trans-versing rural America, I’m catching