A journey to the most remote hard-to-find Ghost Towns in this area: Frankfort, Altoona, Vader, and Anatone, Washington. Lost Prairie, Flora, and Paradise, Oregon. We'll go through some of the empty buildings and look around.
My grandmother Jennie Hayes taught school in Flora for a couple of years and my great aunt Ruth Hayes was superintendent of schools for Wallowa County. I was up there the last time in about 2004 or so.
Good video for me as I have been researching my great grandfather, George Washington Frazier who had a farm in Paradise, I think, and is buried with his wife Matilda Lowe Frazier in Flora.
the conversation with your late wife and Myrtle Wulff and yourself starting at 17:09 is really interesting...something a lot of your other later videos have a bit less of is dialogue with locals. I guess not too many ghost towns have residents who can speak. i appreciated learning about how WWII caused a lot of the farming communities to collapse as men and women went to work in the munition factories.
Great video Dan. You have captured a part of history that might otherwise have gone unrecorded. Hopefully your videos will survive for future generations.
i can hardly wait to go on a USA road trip again ( i am canadian) and look forward to visiting some of the sites i am about to see on your video. I have loved watching your other videos, and hope that you are still exploring around and sharing with the world. Thank you so much Dan.
Dan, this was another fantastic video of yours, informative, interesting, and captures a moment in time that now no longer exists. I hope, and imagine, that copies of your videos are archived in some Historical Society library, they are important documents of a time gone by. Thank you again, I really appreciate getting to be an armchair traveller.
I started making these videos in 1988 when the Lord provided me with a good camcorder.. RU-vid is a good place to have them available to anyone who would like to see them. I just have them on the local TV here around Eugene, Oregon, but there are probably far more people who can enjoy them now. It's really fun to visit all these interesting places. There are probably over 200 videos in all.
This is so fun, thank you so much for sharing!! My Great--Grandmother was the baby of the Clark family in Flora, and then she later lived in the Conley house with her own family - my Grandma lived in the Conley house when she was wee.
What a small world. It's good to hear from someone who is familiar with this particular ghost town (about the biggest one in Oregon). Thanks for sharing your information with us.
The Indians were hostile?????,And Quite Rightly So!!!!!!!!!, Ive watched a many of this guys shows, he always infers that somehow the natives had no reason to be less than thrilled by their oppressors.
I gave the directions at 4:01 on the video: After you cross the bridge from Astoria turn right on 401 to Johnson Creek Road, then stay right until you go past Sission Road. Then you will see 3 roads that all fork off to the right. I took the center one, but you can also take the one to the right until they become impassible. Then you need to walk about 1/2 mile. Since I was here in 1989, and the buildings were drooping pretty badly, there may not be anything to find there now. The forest may have taken over. Let me know if there is still anything but a board pile left.
@Clark Gable google is great and convenient, but i stand by old school maps...great for areas that has no cell reception, or for deceptive areas like the Salton Sea where for some reason though there was cell reception, google maps could not triangulate my location, perhaps due to the topography, being over 300 feet below sea level. Paper Maps, especially old ones can share loads of info that google maps can't.
