Five SMALL TOWNS WITH THE DARKEST HISTORIES
Many news and history stories are framed through the lens of countries and their large, powerful cities. Though this makes sense on the surface, it frequently ignores the ground-level turmoil that erupts in small towns and villages.
We ve all heard of the Boston Tea Party, but what about Grey s Raid in Fairhaven? We ve all heard of the Alamo, but how many have heard of Gonzalez and Goliad?
Small towns are sometimes the scene of the world s worst disasters, tragedies, and misfortunes. As a result, many small towns have earned a bad reputation for darkness and horror. Here are ten of the most sinister small towns with dubious paternities.
As a result, many small towns have earned a bad reputation for darkness and horror. Here are ten of the most sinister small towns, whose dubious histories have landed them alongside their big-city cousins in history books.
10-Burke, Idaho
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Burke, Idaho is now a deserted ghost town. The majority of its buildings are still standing, though dilapidation is gradually taking hold as the decades pass. As a prosperous business, it was founded in 1887.
Burke, a mining settlement, started out strong but was quickly overwhelmed by violence and poverty.
natural calamities
Burke was the site of a deadly avalanche, a shootout, and a riot within four years of its founding.
between miners and mine owners, as well as an unintentional mine explosion By 1892, the governor had resigned.
Idaho had declared martial law in Burke and dispatched hundreds of troops to restore order.
It
was only temporary. Burke was the victim of a deadly hotel fire, as well as another over the next two decades.
Another fatal avalanche, another fire, a mine explosion (this time intentional and malicious),
a flood, and one final fire Burke is cursed if there is a curse anywhere on Earth.
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9-Liberty & Independence, New Jersey
Liberty and Independence are two small, neighbouring towns in New Jersey that are, for the most part, unremarkable. Shades of Death Road, which runs through both of them, earns them a spot on this list.
The road got its name from a series of dark and violent incidents that occurred along its length, encompassing the entire spectrum of human suffering. The location was home to a lethal
Malaria, a string of lethal wild cat attacks on travellers, repeated robberies and murders by highwaymen, lynchings of said highwaymen, three unrelated brutal murders (including a beheading), and an above-average number of fatal car accidents
That doesn't even take into account the numerous paranormal sightings along the road and at nearby Ghost Lake.
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8- Pripyat, Ukrain
Pripyat may not be a household name in the United States, but its neighbour Chernobyl most emphatically is.
Pripyat swelled to nearly 50,000 residents at its peak, pushing past the limit of
It used to be a small town, but now it has a total population of zero.
Pripyat was a functioning city for 16 years before being hastily abandoned during the nearby conflict.
The Chernobyl disaster It has now spent 35 years as an irradiated, after 16 years of habitation.
deteriorating ghost town One of the most well-known images intended to highlight the tragedy of
Chernobyl is actually from Pripyat; it depicts the Pripyat Amusement Park and, in particular, the Pripyat Amusement Park.
Its colossal Ferris wheel, now covered in rust and standing motionless.
As a whole
The city s population was evacuated in just two days, and many of the ruined city buildings still stand.
former contents—schoolbooks are open on desks, and sheets are still on their beds, half empty.
hurriedly thrown off
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7-Attica, New York
Attica is a small town in upstate New York, just a short drive from Buffalo. In its 210-year history, the quaint little country town has seen little of note. That is, aside from some of the most infamous prisoner torture in US history and the country's single bloodiest prison riot.
The Attica Correctional Facility is a maximum-security prison known for housing some of the most well-known criminals in American history, including Mark David Chapman, Joel Rifkin, and Son of Sam. The facility is also known for mistreating its inmates, including overcrowding, over-liberal use of solitary confinement, and guards using race to punish inmates.This led to the Attica Uprising in 1971, a mass prisoner rebellion that ended in
over 40 people (almost all of them prisoners) dead.
6- Elaine, Arkansas
Elaine, Arkansas, is one of those tiny towns that nonetheless play a big role in revealing the
systemic issues that plague America. Even now, its population is less than 700, so it’s easy to
imagine how small and deceptively sleepy it must have seemed in 1919 before it became the
site of one of the worst racial conflicts in U.S. history: the Elaine Massacre.
In 1919, dozens of sites across the U.S. saw racial violence during what came to be known as
the Red Summer. The most violent of these incidents was the massacre in Elaine, which
claimed the lives of an estimated 100 to 240 local black farmers. The attack was carried out
by a combination of local white mobs, the KKK, and federal soldiers. Immediately following
the incident, the Arkansas state government began to cover it up, though luckily, the truth
eventually found its way out. It has left the town with a permanently scarred reputation.
In an Ark. town, echoes of a century-old massacre.
5- Centralia, Pennsylvania
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Centralia, Pennsylvania, once had a population of over 1,000 people. It had five as of 2017. There have been no murders or massacres in the town. Even its takeover from the indigenous peoples was peaceful by American standards. Instead, Centralia is on the verge of being abandoned and has been dubbed "Hell on Earth" for one reason: the entire town is on fire and has been for 59 years.
Local firefighters were hired in May 1962 to clean up the town dump the same way they always did: by setting it on fire. Except that the fire didn t go out this time. A passage beneath the dump connected to the town s labyrinthine network of coal mines.
The fire spread and,
fueled by the immeasurable quantities of natural gas in the tunnels, burned and burned. It
took 30 years for the majority of Centralia’s residents to evacuate the city, as sinkholes, open
flames, and toxic gas clouds slowly engulfed the town, leaving it the fuming wasteland it is
today.
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