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Erick Doxey photo
As early settlers flocked to the American West to extract the land’s rich resources, small towns spread across the landscape. Pre-automobile, residents of these newly inhabited places needed amenities like stores, schools, doctors, churches, train depots and more.
But when those natural resources — timber, ore, water — eventually dried up, people left. Buildings and other evidence of human habitation slowly crumbled back into the ground, dying a slow death at nature’s hand.
Here in Eastern Washington and North Idaho, not many “ghost towns” with structures
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