Photos tagged as ghost_town

Looking through the window of one of the worker's cottages

• Date: 21 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Worker's Cottages at Swansea, the wilderness intrudes

• Date: 21 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Primative Road

The road up to Swansea from Bouse, Arizona. It isn't bad, but if you try and carry on west towards Parker or Lake Havasu, you need a 4WD vehicle.

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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GJW tries to Do the Joshua Tree

I want to take shelter, from poison rain

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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GJW and Canal

The central Arizona canal. You cross over it on the way up to Swansea from Bouse, ARizona

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Driving the Southwest

The west is the best, so said Jim Morrison

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Me in a door of the worker's cottages

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Did You Hear Something?

They don't call it a ghost town for nothing

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Me in the doorway, looking pensive

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Me holding on in a doorway, hoping that the camera is aimed correctly

It wasn't, as you can't see the top of my head, can you?

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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The Workers' Cottages

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Old Truck rusting in the desert

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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One of the houses in Swansea, nothing but half-standing walls now

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Swansea Old Railway Scales

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Old Railway Station, Swansea

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Swansea Railway Station and Cliff

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Swansea Tree and Mill

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Rusty barrel in Swansea

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Old Furnance for the mine

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Looking out on the desert through the window of an old truck

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Swansea Mine, supports sticking out of the hill

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Swansea Mine, hills of slag

• Date: 20 December 2008
• Photographer: GregW: gallery
• Location: Swansea, USA: gallery
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Day 159 - Terlingua, School Int

Terlingua is considered a Ghost Town. It was abandoned in the 1940's.

• Date: 7 February 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Study Butte, USA: gallery
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Day 159 - Terlingua, School Ext

The Perry School once housed as many as 100 students.

• Date: 7 February 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Study Butte, USA: gallery
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Day 159 - Terlingua, House

As many as 2,000 people lived in Terlingua up to the 1940's when the mine was closed.

• Date: 7 February 2008
• Photographer: jl98584: gallery
• Location: Study Butte, USA: gallery
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