![]() When most people started living in more urbanized areas, since they were not farming, either they needed to go to a job or have customers because they ran some kind of business out of their house. In a more general sense, in an agricultural society, most people lived on a farm or a ranch and shipped their grain or cattle to the nearest big trading center. So the town died, slowly or quickly, and became a Ghost Town. After the gold was mined out, or the spring went dry, or the railroad went through a town 100 miles away instead, there was no way to earn a living there. Many of these survived and grew, even after the initial rush was over (all major cities in the West Coast got their start like this). ![]() The term "ghost town" is used because the town's business buildings and houses are still there, except they are boarded up and derelict, which gives the place a spooky feeling.īack in the days of The Wild West, settlements would spring up quickly if news came of a gold or silver strike, or of a good water supply in arid land, and folks would flock in and put up a Boom Town. A town or village that no longer has enough inhabitants to be considered a town (or in extreme cases may be abandoned entirely) note the legal term for this is "disincorporation".
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