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Home · Fort Berthold Reservation, North Dakota, United States
Elbowoods, North Dakota
1889 - 1954
There is a photograph from 1948 of a man holding his glasses aside so he can wipe his eyes while the Secretary of the Interior signs a piece of paper.
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Home · Mississippi County, Arkansas, United States
Dyess Colony
1934 - 1951
Five hundred families were given twenty acres, a mule and a debt.
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Home · Phippsburg, Maine, United States
Malaga Island
1860 - 1912
In 1912 the State of Maine evicted an entire community from an island, committed eight of its people to an institution for the feeble-minded, and dug up its graveyard.
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Home · Portland, Oregon, United States
Vanport, Oregon
1942 - 1948
Oregon's second-largest city lasted five and a half years and is now a golf course.
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Home · Kalaupapa, Hawaii, United States
Kalaupapa, Molokai
January 6, 1866
Nearly eight thousand people were taken from their families and put on this peninsula.
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Home · Graham County, Kansas, United States
Nicodemus, Kansas
1877
The federal troops left the South in 1877.
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Home · Galveston, Texas, United States
The Raising of Galveston
September 8, 1900 - 1911
Around eight thousand people died at Galveston in a single night.
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Home · Mono County, California, United States
Bodie, California
1876 - 1942
Sixty-five saloons along a mile of main street, and now nobody at all.
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Home · Centralia, Pennsylvania, United States
Centralia, Pennsylvania
1841
There is a town in the anthracite country of Pennsylvania with five people living in it, a revoked postal code, and a coal seam burning underneath it that has been alight since...
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Home · Collinsville, Illinois, United States
Cahokia
1050 - 1350
We do not know what the people who built this city called it.
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Home · Tahlequah, Oklahoma, United States
The Cherokee National Female Seminary
1851 - 1909
The Cherokee Nation built it, paid for it, and staffed it, in Indian Territory, twenty years before Oklahoma existed.
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Home · Park County, Wyoming, United States
The Heart Mountain Relocation Center
1942 - 1945
At its fullest it was the third largest city in Wyoming, and nobody in it was allowed to leave.
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Home · San Francisco Bay, California, United States
The Angel Island Immigration Station
1910 - 1940
The poems are cut into the walls.
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Home · West Thumb, Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, United States
Hamilton's Store at West Thumb
A general store and gas pump on the shore of Yellowstone Lake, at the place called West Thumb, where the road came down out of the trees and everybody stopped.
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Home · Lexington (Fayette County), Kentucky, United States
Cadentown Rosenwald School
1922
A two-room frame schoolhouse outside Lexington, Kentucky, built in 1922 and 1923 by a Black farming community that had to buy its own school before anyone would help pay for it.
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Home · Kensington, New Hampshire, United States
The Lovering Farmhouse
c. 1755
A house built around 1755 in Kensington, New Hampshire, and measured two centuries later by draftsmen who came with rulers instead of cameras.
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