I wasn't lost I just didn't know where I was

[studedude]

Originally Posted by studedude

Thanks for the help. I did not get off of the highway (road) I was traveling on. It could have been 10. I'll be there Thur and post some pictures if its a winner.

It was not Easton. Next town east on 10 is Teheran. That wasn't it either. A guy from the county highway dept suggested Bath. No luck there. I'll be in Springfield again later this month. I'll keep looking and post pictures if I find it.

[teresabutler]

Originally Posted by studedude

It was not Easton. Next town east on 10 is Teheran. That wasn't it either. A guy from the county highway dept suggested Bath. No luck there. I'll be in Springfield again later this month. I'll keep looking and post pictures if I find it.

Bath, we'll we are kind of like a ghost town, we do have a old gas stations, but it's now a repair shop and we have three taverns.

Good luck finding your ghost town.

[Momagain1]

Originally Posted by teresabutler

If you were driving from Mason city to Havana , you very well could have followed route 29 out of Springfield and turned left at Mason City and continued on through Thehran and then into Easton, which is a very small town that sometimes looks to be deserted , at times, all that is messing is the tumble weeds. If you follow route 10 past Easton it continues over to route 136 and if you go west on 136 it goes right into Havana.

There also is some very small towns on the route from Havana, to Macomb as well. My guess is it's probably easton. The gas station is gone now though.

Until a few weeks ago I hadn't been through easton in years and was not aware that they tore that old gas station down.

There is alot of small rural town in this area, like our town, that the school's sit ,because they consoliated with larger nearby towns. Easton's school are no longer used as school anymore as well.

There's also a small rural town off route 97 , Oakford. they have a old gas station right off the highway and it's or was a toy store. You really do not go through the downtown area of Oakford though unless you turn off the highway.

good luck figuring it out though.

I live in Mason City; it is definitely not here...
if you turned at a 4 way stop at the corner; yes; you would have went through Teheran; but it has NO old abandonded gas station...

Easton is not abandonded and has lots of decent houses etc..so I doubt its that either..

sorry!

[Betsy88]

This does sound like the Havana area possibly. I also had a sales route a few years back and spent a day driving that area--time has not touched some of these towns. The route going south from Havana (past Bath, don't recall the highway) was one I was on. Even down to Griggsville/Pittsfield area is like this.

[AbqTeacher]

Sounds like it could be a number of towns between Springfield and Havana. Unfortunately I don't have them all memorized....the only odd landmark in that area that I remember is the "SCABS HURT EVERYONE" sign in Beardstown.

[60-minutes-II]

Where are the pictures?

[studedude]

Originally Posted by 60-minutes-II

Where are the pictures?

I drove all around that area 3 or 4 times last year. I never found it. I did take some interesting pics.












All of these, and a lot more, are abandoned along highways in Illinois. I did not find the ghost town but it has inspired me to write a story about waste in America. It's a compilation of stories about how each abandoned item could have changed the life of a fictional character down on his or her luck.

[linicx]

Did ou ever look in Kilbourn? It has the old grocery store, Pottstown was a grocery store. Its on the backroads betwee Peoria. and Farmington. There is a couple of those little twons between Lincoln and Mason City. of IL 10, There's a backroad from EAston to Havana. A lot of little towns like Cuba which has the grocery store. Astoria which has the grocery store and dirt roads, Forest City had a fricery store 20 years ago. It's between the Manito blacktop and US 136 betweem O: 1- and Havana. Oakford ahs a grocerty store, Its on 97. Cepoo is nothing but dirt roads but there isnt' anything left of it. I don't know how it is now, but there used to be a lot of small towns and dirt roads round Galesburg. If you took 150 you would nave gone throgh Brimfield. before you reache Peoria. San Jose is another town that time forgot.

Forget GPS and buy a good truckers map Every town and every seconadary road is marked. If you have the time you should stop at Bernadotte in Fulton County. It has an awesome restaurant that sits by a little ol dam and iron bridge. It's beaurtiful. But, its also historic for that is where Camp Ellis was in WWII. You still be able to find remains of the old camp. You'll hear some stories from the old timers. Bernadotte is a big town of about 200. You have to get the name right. The locals call it Burnieedot. Smithfield is a neat old town too. This county was formed in the early 1800s. The oldest and only Dutch curch in the midwest is at Fairview. It still holds services every Sunday. If you like history, you will get lost in it in this county.