The Cataloochee Valley is a remote area in Western North Carolina, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was never really a town, but is included on most lists of Ghost Towns in North Carolina.

• Cataloochee: Center of the World - National Park Service Video
• NPS Cataloochee Basin
• Cataloochee Reunion
• Serena, by Ron Rash
• Research Pinboard

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Hurricane Helene has not been kind to us. Here's a quick update on what to expect over the next few weeks.

Hamburg was a city in South Carolina on the Savannah River, across from Augusta. It was the terminus of the Charleston to Hamburg Railroad, the first regular passenger service in the US.

• Henry Schulz and His Town of Hamburg
• The Untold Story of Hamburg, SC
• Prince Rivers

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The town of Auraria was the site of the first gold rush in Georgia. It was a boom town on a mountain ridge, but died out as the nearby town of Dahlonega grew more prominent.

• Auraria : the story of a Georgia gold-mining town / E. Merton Coulter
• Etowah River Mine Tunnel Trip

This is an episode from an old podcast series that I started some years ago. It's about old cemeteries and headstones, which often are the only remnants left of a ghost town. Here's a link to the original blog post...

The Stone Carvers

Ebenezer was one of the first settlements in the Georgia Colony. Displaced Salzburgers from Austria traveled to the new world and settled on a tributary of the Savannah River. It was also the site of a terrible tragedy during Sherman's March to the Sea.

Links:

• Old Ebenezer
• Wikipedia Entry
• Betrayal at Ebenezer
• Johann Martin Boltzius
• Georgia Salzburger Society
• Paddling trips
  • Cypress Adventures
  • Lowcountry Unfiltered does Ebenezer Creek

This episode is a departure from our normal ghost town explorations. In today's episode we look at fake ghost towns, specifically, western amusement parks that are now defunct. The parks covered in today's episode include Tweetsie Railroad (still going strong), Ghost Town in the Sky, Rebel Railroad, Frontierland, and Echo Valley.

Blog posts about Echo Valley:

• Memories of Echo Valley
• Even More Echo Valley
• Echo Valley Photographic Proof

The ghost town of Chappells is located in the southwest corner of Newberry County, South Carolina. The town was first known as Chappell's Ferry, then Chappell's Depot, then just Chappells. When the new Highway 39 bridge over the Saluda River was built, it bypassed the main street of the town, dooming the remaining businesses.

Blog posts:

• Exploring Chappels
• The Sad Fate of Chappells
• More on Chappells
• Return to Chappells

Farmer's Bank of Chappells

Chappells Depot

Chappells Ruins