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By KATE MORGAN | Special To The Washington Post | Published: January 22, 2021 There are moments, as you drift through the deep canyon walls of the New River Gorge, when it feels like you ve got the whole world to yourself. It s just you and the river, littered with massive, prehistoric boulders that were here when the coal mining camps were built, and the fur trading posts before them, and the Shawnee and Cherokee villages before those. In a river that geologists say could be one of the world s oldest, you can lose yourself in time. Then the current picks up, and you re back to paddling like mad, navigating the chutes and eddies of heart-pounding white water.
Top 10 Towns People Abandoned For No Reason When you walk through a ghost town, it’s usually easy to see why people would leave. There could be an eternal fire burning underground like in Centralia, Pennsylvania. France has at least six abandoned towns in ruins due to German raids during WWII. But if you’re walking through a ghost town with perfectly good buildings, a decent location, and a stable political environment, then why would someone abandon a perfectly good town? Here are the top 10 towns that people abandoned for no apparent reason.
10 Dudleytown, Connecticut: The Dark Forest Atop of a hill in the quiet, forested Connecticut town of Cornwall is an abandoned village isolated from the rest of the world. Dudleytown, which sits in the now-private “Dark Entry Forest,” was settled in 1747 by the Dudleys. Not only is it abandoned, but according to local legend, cursed, as well. Dudleytown started like any early settlement, where people built homes, farmed land, and l
The New River Gorge in West Virginia, one of the most popular recreation areas in the United States, will be the newest national park thanks to the stimulus package approved by the federal government in December 2020.