Ghost Towns In Oregon's Early History

Not too far from the apostle Island is town of Superior, which is home of the Fairlawn Mansion. The mansion was built by Martin Patterson and used as a resting spot for immigrants from Canada. Every immigrant that came in and out of Mr. Patterson home he treated as if they where family (Lewis & Fisk 50). Also the house at one time was an orphanage in which two girls drowned in the pool (Lewis & Fisk 51). Various people believe that the house is haunted by a servant girl that was murder by her husband shortly after moving in with him (Lewis & Fisk 51). It is said that her ghost haunts the Fairlawn Mansion because she felt most happy there in her short life (Lewis & Fisk 51). Also in Superior there is a road called Billings Drive and that is said to be haunted, a women with red hair has been seen walking across the street with her dog, and then she disappears in the woods (Lewis & Scott 48). Other cities in Northern Wisconsin include: Rhinelander with Molly’s Rock, Chippewa Falls with Sheeley House, and just one more city is Eau Claire with Cobblestone Bar, The Opera House, Rope Swing, Stones Throw Bar/Club, UW Eau Claire, and Vine Street (Lewis & Fisk 177, 45, 54; Haunted Place in Wisconsin 7). You can’t talk about Northern Wisconsin without move south to talk about Central Wisconsin.

There are a lot of misconceptions while talking about fossils. Fossils are not limited to the remains of a once living thing, but rather the evidence of life that existed in the past. This means that a fossil can be a dinosaur footprint, the form of a body on dry mud, bones, etc.

Robert Desmarais is no ordinary caretaker, living as he does in a ghost town 8200 feet above sea level. He is also an historian, story teller, geologist, chemist and licensed blaster. He speaks of the people who inhabited this place as if he’d known them all personally, which due to the eerie nature of this town, he might well have. Robert is in the process of putting together a book on the history of the town. Hopefully it will be available before long, as just the few stories he told us made me want to learn more.

The Jurassic formation or complex famous for dinosaur fossils that Marietta College's dinosaur program is famous for digging in each summer and will be going to visit in Utah during May to collect more dinosaurs from is the:

Towns and cities sprang from lands where railroads were built and those that were far from railroads became ghost towns

The first chapter of the book discusses the way we can use fossil records to study the biological world. Fossils are one of the major lines of evidence we use to understand ourselves. Surprisingly, we are able to discover them with a high amount of precision and predictability. In particular, field paleontologists have it easier than it has ever been before due to the current information age. The physical hunt for important fossils, however, is much like it has always been. Three factors limiting the number of useful fossil sites include rock age, type (whether or not it can preserve fossils), and number of exposed rocks. So, it takes a bit of luck to reliably find fossils. Thankfully, rock

5. Deadwood nearly was the home to a dozen of famous characters from the Old West.

We have just passed the site of Tiadaghton, (Pronounced Tie-a-dot’-on) a ghost town deep in the bottom of the Pine Creek Gorge.

The Painted Hills, a unit of the John Day Fossil Bed National Monuments, is a beautiful phenomenon exhibiting different time periods throughout Eastern Oregon's history. 40 million years ago,during the Eocene epoch, the creation of painted rocks began. At the time, weather condition were tropical/sun-tropical. This is validated by the consistent ash fall in the area which fossilized organisms like palm trees, avocados and crocodiles.This time is when the rocks/the Clarno formation were created throughout the Oligocene epoch, climate became temperate. Starting the Miocene epoch, climate changed dramatically due to the rising Cascades. The plants and animals were different than before. Oak trees and deer replaced the palms and crocodiles . Low silica eruptions occurred in this time covering the area

There was once a President that was named Calvin Coolidge that declared the lava beds a national monument in 1925 the landscape in the park was covered in lava. All of the underground caves and lava tubes were formed by the lava eruption that cause it to stay like that.

Layers of soil are laid down on dead animals or plants embalming them. The minerals replace the organic matter creating the fossil.

Yellowstone national park is a magnificent place and it was discovered by to different men in very different time periods many years apart. One of the men was John Colter he joined the Lewis and Clark expedition in 1803. Tom Murphy is the other man he has been exploring the same area that John Colter did almost 200 years ago for almost 40 years. John Colter told many people about what he saw and no one seemed to believe him. Tom Murphy has been spending part of his winter in Yellowstone for the last 29 years.

They lava beds have a great history and geological background. The good thing about this is it is crossing two classes, so you can learn about two instead of just one. In the passage,"Lava Beds National Monument," the author states, "But this "Secret" park of volcanic rock and underground caves is full of history and geologic wonder," The things that makes this park so special is that this secret park is that it use to be covered in lava. The other thing was that the caves and tubes made volcanic eruptions over the last half million years. The history parts comes in when it was covered in lava and the geological part comes

Kansas has many state parks and the popular place is the monument rocks and the castle rocks. The monument rocks and the castle rocks have fossils in ancient chalks in plain western Kansas which is a spectacular landmark. The chalk was deposited during the Cretaceous period of geological history about 80 million years ago, when the central interior was covered by sea. The fossils were like shark teeth, fish bones, even dinosaur bones, and other sea creatures. The fossils in the chalk bed go to the Sternberg Museum in Hays.Michael J. Everhart is a shark hunter and he found a shark skull which was under sand and gravel The chalk was a good material for trapping and preserving

But Ghost Town is a term in the English language that refers to a once populated area that has been deserted. When the gold dried up, so did 10,000 citizens. The disaster was one of the largest, most devastating nuclear disasters in world history. The immediate effects were horrible. This proved even more troubling areas for today. A lot of people became sick due to the Chernobyl Disaster and ended up in hospitals or dead. 31 people died right away due to radioactive smoke inhalation, radiation poisoning, fire, rescue mishaps, or from the blast itself. Months and years after the accident it was clear that the effects would last for a very long time for many people around there. Out of the five million people that resided in contaminated areas,