There are thousands of Ghost Towns in the Midwest alone, and some of the numbers are hard to come by because a town may only be traceable through historic maps and records. Some still have a cemetery nearby, but many have either been claimed by rivers and mother nature, while many have been plowed under for the use of the land. Railroads caused migration while they plotted the land and their exact locations, sometimes placing their tracks nowhere near existing towns, and making their future existence obscure and difficult.
It's hard to narrow down multiple ghost towns (each with their own distinct story) but for the sake of this video I narrowed it down to 5! Certainly, in the state of Iowa, there were more ghost towns, and if you have the information you would like to share on any mentioned or non-mentioned, please feel free to contact me. History is a subject that we can all navigate together, and I am always open to discussion and learning. Below is the timeline for the Top 5 Ghost Towns In Iowa.
Time Line
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00:00 - 00:25 - Intro
00:25 - 01:42 - Buxton
01:42 - 02:34 - Angus
02:35 - 03:34 - Iowaville
03:35 - 04:46 - Carrollton
04:47 - 05:45 - Mt. Pisgah
05:46 - 06:39 - Outro
Midwest Ghost Town uses images that are in the Public Domain. Sometimes pictures and videos of actual events are often not available - to remedy this I will sometimes use photographs or videos of similar events for the objects of illustration.
If the footage is not available in the Public Domain - I may use sites using the Creative Commons license.
Special thanks for permission and allowed use -
1. Mt. Pisgah photos - Don McDowell "Iowa Adventurer" Don is a personal friend and has amazing articles and stories about Iowa over on his website www.IowaAdventurer.com - go check him out. The pictures of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young were taken from public domain sources from the Library of Congress and the Smithsonian sites.
2. Buxton photos - Alisa Corstorphine - who had an old box of family photos and postcards - shared.
3. Carrollton photos (mostly train) - were mainly taken from Both Smithsonian and Library of Congress Public Domain.
4. Angus photos - Public Domain pics with creative common pics and videos used for illustration.
5. Iowaville - some of the pics were personal, but for the purpose of providing illustration, some of the videos and pics presented were taken from the creative commons license through Pexels - and were not necessarily real events. The pictures of Chief Black Hawk and his son were used as open public domain from the Smithsonian.
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2 июл 2024
