Bringing life to the ghosts of North Dakota's past
Only two structures remain of what was once Lostwood, N.D., in Mountrail County – a well-kept church and this boarded-up school. Although nobody lives in Lostwood, it is listed as inhabited because there is a farm directly adjacent to the townsite. It reportedly had a peak population of 100 in 1920. Photo courtesy "Ghosts of North Dakota"FARGO - What began as a failed promotion by two radio disc jockeys has turned into a quiet effort to breathe life into North Dakota’s ghost towns.
The project is called Ghosts of North Dakota, started eight years ago by two native sons who had planned to overnight in haunted locations. That never took off, but the idea of documenting history and visualizing days gone by appealed to Terry Hinnenkamp and Troy Larson.
Their goal, Larson said, is to keep taking photos until there are none to take.
“If we can do something in a non-in-your-face way to spur restoration or renovation in any of these places, we would be all about it,” Larson said. “But we don’t like to be too political either.”
Their website, http://ghostsofnorthdakota.com , has photographs from 100 faded or fading old towns, along with whatever brief history that could be gleaned about the place. Their work shows remnants of humanity, but more often features no people, light poles, cars or anything else that might compromise the authenticity of a photo.
Their most recent post features the town of Forbes, on the South Dakota border, where they made photos of a stone house museum, school, post office, bank and saloon. One striking picture shows a square wooden house, fairly intact, flanked by a barn settling to its knees and a third, smaller building that’s fallen to little more than a pile of wood.
“On nearly every trip, we go out looking forward to seeing a certain town, but on the way home, we realize another town was better or more fun. Forbes was that town on this trip. The pleasant surprise,” the duo writes.
The website has more than 10,000 followers on Facebook . Some fans have become contributors; about one-fourth of the material on the site is submitted.
Mark Johnson, 35, of Fargo, has posted work from the towns of Omemee, Temple and Brantford.
“What’s really neat is when they have the galleries posted, folks will see them and will retell all their memories about back in the old days,” Johnson said. “It’s fascinating to read them, and lots of times people from these towns are re-connecting through this project.
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