Cokesbury Masonic Female College

The communities of Tabernacle, Mount Ariel, and Cokesbury are located in northern Greenwood County, South Carolina. These communities represent the evolution of a Utopian Methodist settlement formed around an academic institution. Resources for this episode:

• Cokesbury College Website
• Blog post - Cokesbury Tour
• Cokesbury - SC Picture Project
• Tabernacle Cemetery - SC Picture Project
• Cokesbury, The Methodist Town
• Old Cokesbury (PDF)
• Stephen Olin - Wikipedia
• Historic Cokesbury Postcard

Mayucha was a boom town in Oconee County, South Carolina, at the turn of the 20th Century. Now located in the Sumter National Forest, the town was known for gold mining. There is much that is unknown about this town.

Resources:

• Wikipedia Article - from Archive
• Blog post - Mysterious Mayucha and the Wolf Pit
• Salem: Twice a Town
• Oconee LDMA Camp
• Treasure.net discussion
• Miuka Falls
• Wolf Pit Cemetery

Lost Cove Cabin - photo by Brenda Wiley

The community of Lost Cove was never really a town, yet it's on just about every list of North Carolina ghost towns. It was always been remote, with no roads into the community.

Resources:

• Atlas Obscura
• Lost Cove, North Carolina: The Life and Death of a Thriving Community (1864-1957) - Christy Smith
• Citizens of Lost Cove
• Epitaph for Lost Cove

Season 4 of Carolina Ghost Towns drops on Tuesday, September 1.

Happy Fourth of July!

I'm taking some time off from the podcast to travel and be with family. I'll be back with more episodes later in August. Until then, have a great summer!

In the 1730s, a group of Swiss and French Huguenots let by Jean Pierre Purry came to South Carolina and settled on the Savannah River. Their new town became known as Purrysburg.

These are some of the resources used in this episode:

• Blog Post - Grave Matters on the Savannah
• Blog Post - A Paddle and a Pow Wow on the Savannah River
• A History of Purrysburg on Carolana
• Wikipedia article

• Memorial presented to His Grace, my lord the Duke of Newcastle ... upon the present condition of Carolina, and the means of its amelioration: by Jean Pierre Purry

• A description of the province of South Carolina, drawn up at Charles Town, in September, 1731. Tr. from Mr. Purry's original treatise, in French, and published in the Gentleman's magazine, for August, September, and October, 1732
• The history of South Carolina in the revolution, 1775-1780
• Purrysburg Cemetery

Skagit City

Since I'm in the Pacific Northwest, I thought it would be good to do another ghost town from this area. Today's ghost town is Skagit City in Washington. This is another town with connections to the Southeast.

Here are some of the resources I used in this episode...

• Skagit River Journal
• Tales of the Magic Skagit
• Ghost Camps and Boom Towns by JoAnn Roe
• Blog Post - Searching for Skagit City

Skagit City Ferry

Skagit River Log Jams

Skagit City School

Skagit City School, 2017

Skagit River and former location of Skagit City

This week I'm traveling and I've got a bad head cold, so I'm reposting an episode from Season 1. I hope to be back in a couple of weeks with new episodes.