Alpine
“Been coming up here since I was seven years old, so it’s quite a magical place for me.”
– Karl Morledge
Cartersville
“But I don't know what else to tell you about Cartersville, it started and then it just never went any further I guess.”
– Bill Muri
Christina
“We did notify our constituents in those small communities and … about all we heard from them was, ‘no don't take me off the maps.’”
– Vern Peterson
Epsie
“There were all kinds of rural post offices. They all had some potential to becoming a townsite.”
– Calvin Rice
Fergus
“In my lifetime I just remember it being a post office and a little general store, which have both disappeared by now.”
– Charlotte Orr
Finch
“At one time my dad, Howard Tate, ran the store and the filling station.”
– Lavina Hall
Flatwillow
“It just seems like there is no reason to take it off the map, it's a part of history.”
– Tom Pugrud
Horton
“I wouldn't know why they would want to delete it off the map. It's a part of history, really.”
– Frank Hartman
Lombard
“I can stand there in Lombard and close my eyes and see it still. Then I open them and nothing is there.”
– Rose Ellen Dempsey
Maiden
“There's a spirit here, there's a spirit in this old town.”
– Jerry Hanley
Moorhead
“The old store and post office we moved down here. We took the front out and store machinery in it.”
– George Fulton
Quietus
“Things change as history changes.”
– Alan Lloyd
Ross Fork
“These little dinky towns are not the only ones that are going to go that route.”
– Joe Simpson
Sheffield
“I think economics and closing the railroad, … is what so many of these area towns die from, and it's a slow death.”
– Sonya Crocker
Simpson
“I feel sad, but it's the same thing that we all experience, life goes on and it just drops things off along the way.”
– Don Greytak
Sixteen
“He was Sixteen or Sixteen was Bill. They kind of just went together.”
– Lee Zehntner
Tyler
“You just fade into the picture, don’t ya.”
– Eva Fleharty
Vananda
“The Milwaukee crews came in here in six, I believe. Section crew here in Cartersville, … Then from Forsyth on west, there was Vananda, Ingomar and Sumatra.”
– Bill Muri