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Bypassed highways idea

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steve in so la

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On one of the other forums the poster talked about an old long gone camp he's doing. That got me to remembering something you all might want to try.
Along in our country's history someone decided to start bypassing cities & towns so traffic could zip byand not be slowed down. Well I worked over the old neglected highway in my town and had a great amount of luck digging old coins & stuff.
I would think if you get an old map of your area and compare it to a current one you should see the bypassed areas. Old motels with pools, old camp cabins, old gas & food stores, etc. They are either remodeled for recent business ; sitting as they were when abandoned, or torn down. I have had good finds in the torn down area's lots.
Good luck, get those maps out, Steve in so az
 
Good tip! I know where there is a set of them old cabins (hotels) that I want to get this fall! :)
 
On US-12, somewhere east of Wampler's Lake State Park (US-124), but west of Clinton, MI, is an OLD hotel on the north side of US-12. Laurie, my other half, tells me that this particular hotel used to be a stage stop on the old stage road that became US-12. For the life of me, I can't remember where on the highway it is. Heck, it may not even be standing now, but I can't think of why someone would tear it down. There's LOTS of campgrounds in that area to check out as well.

You might also want to research a little into Al Capone's smuggling operations. Supposedly he ran his shipments on US-12 between Detroit and Chicago.

HH from Allen in OK
 
Route 66 comes through Tulsa right where we live. Heck, there were THREE different routes through Tulsa that 66 followed. I know where an older hotel was demolished about 6 years ago. I can't remember what's there now, if anything.

Many of the ghost towns that I've researched, both here in OK, and up in MI, died out and went to ghost simply because the railroad bypassed the town. Sometimes, the town's buildings were literally moved to where the RR right-of-way was.

HH from Allen in OK
 
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