{"id":26,"date":"2010-08-17T20:18:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T20:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=26"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:56","slug":"ghost-towns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/17\/ghost-towns\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghost Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; next_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.9&#8243;]<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Towns do not survive forever.\u00a0 Western North Carolina has a number of its own lost towns.\u00a0 They disappeared for a number of reasons.\u00a0 Some vanished when rivers were dammed, creating lakes for the generation of electricity.\u00a0 Lake Glenville drowned the town of Glenville in Jackson County in 1941.\u00a0 The region\u2019s largest lake, Fontana, created in 1944 in Graham and Swain Counties, submerged several small communities, including Japan and Judson.\u00a0 Other towns vanished when their economic reason for being disappeared.\u00a0 Many logging towns, like Sunburst in Haywood County, followed that pattern when the timber boom burst after World War I.\u00a0 So when traveling in western North Carolina, keep your eyes open for ghost towns.\u00a0 You may just stumble across one.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ghost Towns: A Digital Heritage Moment\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/16347909?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Ghost Towns: A Digital Heritage Moment from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/digitalheritage\">Digital Heritage {dot} Org<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section bb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; admin_label=&#8221;section&#8221; prev_background_color=&#8221;#000000&#8243;][et_pb_row admin_label=&#8221;row&#8221; background_position=&#8221;top_left&#8221; background_repeat=&#8221;repeat&#8221; background_size=&#8221;initial&#8221;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243;][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Digital Heritage Audio Radio Moment&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.51&#8243; background_layout=&#8221;light&#8221; text_orientation=&#8221;left&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h3>Digital Heritage Audio Moment<\/h3>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_audio _builder_version=&#8221;3.0.51&#8243; image_url=&#8221;https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/787088_300-115&#215;1151.jpg&#8221; background_color=&#8221;#07630c&#8221; background_layout=&#8221;dark&#8221; border_style=&#8221;solid&#8221; artist_name=&#8221;WCU&#8221; album_name=&#8221;Digital Heritage Moments&#8221; title=&#8221;Ghost Towns&#8221; audio=&#8221;https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/GhostTowns60Mx.mp3&#8243; \/][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towns do not survive forever.  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They disappeared for a number of reasons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2467,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Towns do not survive forever.\u00a0 Western North Carolina has a number of its own lost towns.\u00a0 They disappeared for a number of reasons.\u00a0 Some vanished when rivers were dammed, creating lakes for the generation of electricity.\u00a0 Lake Glenville drowned the town of Glenville in Jackson County in 1941.\u00a0 The region\u2019s largest lake, Fontana, created in 1944 in Graham and Swain Counties, submerged several small communities, including Japan and Judson.\u00a0 Other towns vanished when their economic reason for being disappeared.\u00a0 Many logging towns, like Sunburst in Haywood County, followed that pattern when the timber boom burst after World War I.\u00a0 So when traveling in western North Carolina, keep your eyes open for ghost towns.\u00a0 You may just stumble across one.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote><h3>Multimedia:<\/h3><p>http:\/\/vimeo.com\/16347909<\/p><p>Ghost Towns: A Digital Heritage Moment from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/digitalheritage\">Digital Heritage {dot} Org<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p><h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[430],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-land","tag-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7430,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/7430"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}