Ghost Towns of Washington

From canyon to cave, the Sasquatch legend persists.         By: Roddy Scheer, Nick O’Connell, Tina Lassen and John Levesque with Sarai Dominguez, Cayla Lambier, Jennifer Lee and Anna Samuels SEATTLE MAGAZINE May 2011 Rumors have circulated for years that Washington’s Cascades are the native habitat of Bigfoot (aka Sasquatch). Some certainly emanate from events that occurred (or not) one evening in 1924 in a canyon—ever since known as Ape Canyon (elevation: 4,200 feet)—southeast of Mount St. Helens. A group of miners shot at a mysterious 7-foot-tall apelike creature that was milling around the makeshift cabin they had built in the canyon to assay a nearby claim. That night, as the miners tried to get some shut-eye, their cabin was reportedly pelted with rocks, logs and other forest debris by a band of at least three of the “Big Foot” ape creatures—the miners later measured footprints at up to 19 inches long. In the morning, the story goes, the miners cam

Durham, Wa now up at http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/Durham.html

Hyde Coal Cumberland Mine now up on GTW.  http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/Hyde_Mine.html

Wall Street Mine Liberty, Wa http://www.ghosttownsofwashing ton.com/Liberty.html

Remants of the South Willis mines located in the Wilkeson, Wa area now up on GTW. http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/South_Willis.html

Remnants of a Carbonado mine fan house and power house now up on GTW.   http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/Carbonado_T5L0.html

I have been doing some exploring again in the Carbon River area along Burnett, Wilkeson, and Carbonado.  I had heard a rumor of Burnett having a cemetery at one time.  I could not find any records of the cemetery existing today or location.  I finally ran across a small piece of information I found fascinating. Ten graves (or more) were exhumed and moved in 1954. There was an epidemic of tyhpoid and to protect the community graves were removed.  Who and where is unknown. The small listing below was left at that time. Mary Barber was a child and the relatives in California had her body exhumed to be there. A local resident was paid to upkeep her grave site for many years before she was moved.  He built a picket fence and took flowers annually on her death date. All stones and graves are gone and this cemetery is now non-existent. I cannot find any other information on the exhumation.  I have seen the movie Poltergeist.........hmmm makes one wonder.

Remnants of Crocker coke oven plant near Orting, Wa. http://www.ghosttownsofwashington.com/Crocker.html