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Delaware Town, Ohio - is a ghost town in Coshocton County, Ohio; El Rose (Hancock County) - small town in Orange Township with Rail station but not much business; Elk Lick (Destroyed and flooded after construction of William H. Harsha Lake) [citation needed] Elm Grove (Hancock County) - small town in Marion Township
West entrance of the Moonville tunnel Location of Moonville, Ohio. Moonville is a ghost town in southeastern Brown Township, Vinton County, Ohio, United States.Little remains of this former mining community except a few foundations, a cemetery, and an abandoned railroad tunnel which is the subject of numerous ghost stories.
In 2013, the mine, which remained abandoned for over 40 years began collapsing as water dissolved some of the underground gypsum rock, primarily calcium sulfate, resulting in depressions and sinkholes in the area. From 2013 to 2015, the Ohio Department of Transportation paid The Beaver Excavating Company USD $20,668,621.89 to fill the mine with ...
The lawsuit says the United States Gypsum Co., on Sandusky Bay, failed to maintain underground mines that caused dangerous sinkholes near State Route 2, costing the Ohio Department of ...
Mine subsidence has caused billions of dollars in damage in areas of the U.S. where mining once took place. In Pennsylvania, where mining dates to the late 1700s, coal was mined in nearly half of the state’s 67 counties and there are at least 5,000 abandoned underground mines, leaving behind hazards that officials say can arise at any time.
In 2021, the state said it documented 20,000 orphan wells in a report to the Interior Department. The Wayne National Forest is home to at least 200 abandoned oil and gas wells in southeast Ohio ...
The Green Tree facility provides and stores, digitally and in microfilm (aperture cards), [4] over 182,000 maps of abandoned mines. This repository contains maps of mine workings from the 1790s to the present day. [5] It serves as a point of reference for mine maps and other information for both surface and underground mines throughout the ...
After the streets were elevated, the network of abandoned underground spaces became a historic attraction. Touring the area costs $22, but Google reviews give the tour — especially the ...