From 1910 to 1914, this town was bustling. By 1945, it was completely quiet, adding to the list of forgotten ghost towns.

The junction still retains the name Merriam for railroad purposes, and it is where two Union Pacific tracks meet 2,000 feet northwest of the Minnesota Valley Garden Center on U.S. Highway 169. H ...

Sparta, Taconite Harbor, Genoa, Penobscot, and Cooley live on in Northern Minnesota’s memory, although there are few physical remnants of the towns that claimed these names. These “locations ...