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On 8 June 1948, in Saskatchewan, Canada, a farmer named Cecil George Harris who had become trapped under his own tractor carved a will into the tractor's fender. It read, "In case I die in this mess I leave all to the wife. Cecil Geo. Harris." The fender was probated and was deemed valid as his will under Canadian inheritance law. [3]
Montana Highway 283 (Pony Road) connects the town with U.S. Route 287 in Harrison, 6 miles (10 km) to the northeast.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Pony CDP has an area of 1.34 square miles (3.47 km 2), all of it recorded as land. [2]
Union City is a ghost town in Madison County, Montana, United States.Its elevation is 7,582 feet (2,311 m), and it is located at (45.2082579, -111.9424776. Founded in 1867 as a mining camp, the community was abandoned after the claims ran out.
Many tons of rich gold and silver ore, such as the example shown here, built and supported Virginia City. Like many cities and towns in Nevada, Virginia City was a mining boomtown; it developed virtually overnight as a result of miners rushing to the Comstock Lode silver strike of 1859. But, Virginia City far surpassed all others for its peak ...
The 43rd Virginia Cavalry Battalion, also known as 43rd Virginia Rangers, Mosby's Rangers, Mosby's Raiders, or Mosby's Men, was a battalion of partisan cavalry in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [487] Toyah: Reeves: Semi-abandoned site [488] Toyahvale: Reeves [489] Towash: Hill: No longer exists. [490] Trickham: Coleman: Semi-abandoned Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town, with a year-2000 population of 12 residents ...
Dooley is a ghost town in northeastern Sheridan County, Montana, United States. The town was established as a station stop and one of the first four depots along the Soo Line Railroad branch line to Whitehall .
A former Chickasaw settlement which became a tobacco town, waning with the tobacco industry in the early 19th century. Oketeyeconne: Clay: Submerged A former unincorporated town along the Chattahoochee River that was flooded to create Walter F. George Lake. [22] Olympia: Lowndes: Oscarville: Forsyth: 1912 Submerged Flooded during the formation ...