Merry Christmas from Carolina Ghost Towns! The new season starts January 14, 2025, with new episodes every other Tuesday. Be sure to tune in!

This bonus episode is a lecture I gave for the Mauldin Branch of the Greenville County Library. The lecture was on Monday, November 11, 2024, and featured several of the towns that have appeared on previous episodes.

The community of Cashville is located in southwestern Spartanburg County. It is home to Hurricane Tavern, which is on the National Register of Historic Places. It's also home to Antioch Presbyterian Church. Earlier this month Debbie Weekes invited me to join her and Len Strozier for a survey of the Antioch Cemetery using ground penetrating radar, or GPR. Len then gave a presentation to the general public about the technology.

In this episode I've included Len's entire presentation, so it's a bit longer than usual.

Here are the links to information shared in this episode...

• Blog post
• Omega Mapping Systems
• Antioch PCA
• Upstate Cemetery Presentation Alliance

Pinckneyville was a town in Union County, South Carolina. The town was established in the 1790s as the seat of Pinckneyville District. It was envisioned as the "Charleston of the Upstate." When Pinckney District was divided into smaller districts, the courthouse was moved to Union. Pinckneyville started to die out.

• National Register Listing
• Pinckney District on Carolana
• Wikipedia
• Research Pinboard

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The Cataloochee Valley is a remote area in Western North Carolina, now part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It was never really a town, but is included on most lists of Ghost Towns in North Carolina.

• Cataloochee: Center of the World - National Park Service Video
• NPS Cataloochee Basin
• Cataloochee Reunion
• Serena, by Ron Rash
• Research Pinboard

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Hurricane Helene has not been kind to us. Here's a quick update on what to expect over the next few weeks.

The town of Auraria was the site of the first gold rush in Georgia. It was a boom town on a mountain ridge, but died out as the nearby town of Dahlonega grew more prominent.

• Auraria : the story of a Georgia gold-mining town / E. Merton Coulter
• Etowah River Mine Tunnel Trip

This is an episode from an old podcast series that I started some years ago. It's about old cemeteries and headstones, which often are the only remnants left of a ghost town. Here's a link to the original blog post...

The Stone Carvers