Ferguson
Ville fantôme · États-Unis
- Abandonné
- inconnu
- Fondé
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordonnées
- 33.437, -80.276
Pourquoi abandonné
📉 Déclin économique
Détecté automatiquement d’après le texte : Ferguson is a ghost town, a former lumber-mill settlement, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina.
Histoire
Ferguson is a ghost town, a former lumber-mill settlement, in Orangeburg County, South Carolina. It was a company town owned by Northern lumbermen Francis Beidler and Benjamin F. Ferguson, both of Chicago. The co-CEOs founded the Santee River Cypress Lumber Company in 1881 for the purpose of harvesting old-growth timber from blackwater river wetlands in central South Carolina. The firm, which controlled 165,000 acres (67,000 ha) of land, concentrated its efforts on bald cypress timber.
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