“Nellie Wright at home” with friends and a sandwich, Mountain Park, Alberta, ca. 1935, by Charles Lee, via Provincial Archives of Alberta Commons on flickr.
From about 1912 until 1950, Mountain Park was a coal mining town, producing steam coal for the railroads. Today it is a ghost town.
“An old house almost hidden by sunflowers, Rodney, Mississippi,” July 1940, by Marion Post Wolcott on Kodachrome color film, via Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division on flickr.
I like the little birdhouse on the very tall pole.
Rodney was once a prosperous port on the banks of the Mississippi — until a large sand bar appeared in the 1870s and changed the course of the river. The city was left two miles from the water.
By 1933, there were fewer than 100 people living there. Today, it is considered a ghost town.
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