You’ll discover Thurber just 75 miles west of Fort Worth, once Texas’s coal capital with 10,000 residents before vanishing by 1939. Closer in, Carlton’s abandoned cotton gins stand empty after the town collapsed from 750 to 70 residents. Eliasville boomed with oil in 1921, then crashed to nearly nothing. Medicine Mound burned in 1933’s suspicious fire, while Old Bluffton lies submerged beneath Lake Buchanan since 1937. Each town’s story reveals why these communities disappeared and what physical remnants you can still find today.
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8.1 Are There Guided Tours Available to Visit These Ghost Towns?…