Schoolhouse in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County. A sign on the school's outhouse door reads, "Beware of rattle snakes"

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Scene in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Old building in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Remnants of an old truck in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Carved cowboys on the porch of the Shaniko Hotel in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town but also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County. "R2," carved into the bench, is a nearby ranch

An old jail wagon in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town but also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County. The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley

The old Shaniko Hotel in Shaniko, a tiny Oregon community that is largely a ghost town but that also includes a few small businesses serving curious travelers who come upon it in the middle of remote Wasco County

Old schoolhouse in Akins, Oklahoma. This town was formerly a cotton ginning center as well as trading center for the surrounding farm community. There is no ginning done there now and it has assumed the status of a ghost town

The town was built, beginning in 1898, to serve a railroad that shipped thousands of sheep to market from surrounding farms in the Central Oregon Valley.

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Purchase; Carol M. Highsmith Photography, Inc.; 2018; (DLC/PP-2016:103-12)

Forms part of Carol M. Highsmith's America Project in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive.

Credit line: Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

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