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The Uncensored Library. The Uncensored Library is a Minecraft server and map released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and created by BlockWorks, DDB Berlin, [ 1] and Media.Monks [ 2] as an attempt to circumvent censorship in countries without freedom of the press. The library contains banned reporting from Mexico, Russia, Vietnam, Saudi ...
Ruins of Ciudad Perdida, a city built by the Tayrona in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.
Eureka City is an abandoned mining town in Mpumalanga. It is now a historical site. Diepgezet is an abandoned asbestos mining town in Mpumalanga. It was transferred to tribal land and renamed to Msauli. Leydsdorp is an abandoned mining town near Tzaneen in Limpopo province. [11] Millwood is an abandoned mining town near Knysna. [12]
Lyon. Mineral. Nye. Pershing. Sto. Wash. White Pine. Most ghost towns in Nevada in the United States are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when the mines closed. Those that were not set up as mining camps were usually established as locations for mills, or supply points for nearby mining operations.
Ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is the only ghost town that is the capital of a modern political territory. It was rendered uninhabitable and evacuated in 1995, after being inundated with volcanic ash from the eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano. A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement ...
Clements (Hancock County) - small town in Eagle and Jackson Township. Cordelia (Hancock County) - small town in Orange Township, named Cordelta on some Railroad maps. Crow (Hancock County) - small town in Marion Township. Delaware Town, Ohio - is a ghost town in Coshocton County, Ohio.
Abandoned One of the earliest settlements in Morgan County. [6] Apollo: Putnam: appeared on maps as late as 1955. [7] Argo: Fannin: Armstrong: Wilkes: Auraria: Lumpkin: Dean, Deans, Nuckollsville, Scuffle Town settled during the Georgia Gold Rush but declined after the California Gold Rush and Colorado Gold Rush. Barnett Shoals: Oconee: 1995 a ...
Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park.