Yes. A few people said they were Railroad Towns, which I guess meant that the Railroad literally built a few very small towns, just to increase their business, and even though there was a railroad going right through them, I think they probably started disappearing as early as the 1920s because they were not close enough to the highway, and there was no dependable water near enough. The town of Knight’s Ferry (for example) is right next to one of the Lost Towns that has literally nothing but an old road and a railroad track through it now, and Knight’s Ferry is still there, even though no railroad tracks ever went through it (as far as I know) because of the river.

Anyway, like I said in my article, if I can find actual photos of businesses in these Lost Towns (not just a house or two), I may pursue some kind of book or something about them, if not I definitely will not.

i do, for some areas. Many of the “towns” were nothing more than railroad stops. Some were just platted but never really amounted to anything. Towns such as Tropico, Florida, and Alosta existed but were subsumed by other towns.

Do you know anything about lost towns? Here’s a little article I wrote…

Very good to know. Thank You so much. I look forward to that.

You’ll find plenty of those c-monuments throughout the state. Just look along the fence line and you’ll see them. One of the next installments of the “Finding Old Highways” series will be specifically about c-monuments in the near future.

That’s really interesting. I live in Central California, a long way from there, but I’m fascinated by pretty much any lost towns, abandoned highways, extremely old things, or ruins in California.

That marker predates the freeway, most likely from the 1920’s. It marks the right-of-way for former US 60/70, which is now incorporated into modern I-10. I’ve seen a few of these myself, mostly on the south side of the freeway east of Desert Center.