At the turn of the 20th century, the town of Lehigh in Coal County, Indian Territory (now, of course, Oklahoma) was really something.

Whether you're driving south or north over Interstate 35E to pass by downtown Dallas, poor you, you'll eventually cross the Trinity River.

St. Anne's Church in Natchitoches Parish may be the church with the oldest congregation in the state of Louisiana.

In May 1899. a letter in a Denison newspaper appeared about a "new, thriving, up-to-date town" named Pancanula, Chickasaw Nation.

The Peery Cemetery in Cooke County, Texas is endangered by the development of a 7-Eleven.

Crutchfield Cemetery is an African American burial ground that is all but forgotten among a a construction boom in eastern Denton County.

When Route 66 served as the main highway through Amarillo, the Triangle Motel on the east side was the first place west-bound travelers saw.

The northwestern portions of the Ozark Trail were subsumed by the federal highway project designated as US 66, aka the original Route 66.

Along Cherry Street in downtown Sherman is an interesting ruin behind the 1888 Cottonbelt railroad depot.

The electric interurban railway systems connected cities along the region designated as "North Texas."

Several years ago, I took a road trip and found myself at Indian City, USA. I'm glad I did, because Indian City, USA is no more.

Red River Station was the fabled crossing for the Abilene Cattle Trail at the Red River in Montague County during the 1870s and 1880s.

Besides the calaboose, there's not much else in Devol to explain the town's former industriousness.

From 1893 to 1920, Rainy Mountain Indian School "Americanized" children from the Kiowa and Apache tribes, and now lies as an unmarked ruin.

Medicine Mound is southwest of Chillicothe in Hardeman County, Texas along what was once the Kansas, Mexico & Orient Railway.

The Pawnee/ Wichita village that George Catlin sketched was abandoned by the 1860s.

At the turn of the 20th century, the Army Corps of Engineers dredged the Trinity River and built locks and dams south of Dallas.

Near Marksville, Louisiana sit 2,500 year old, human constructed mounds... ancient, earthen pyramids. They've been abandoned once again.

In 1931, the toll bridge at the former Sacra's Ferry site across from Brown Springs closed for good in favor of a free bridge a upstream.

Paris, Texas has several inactive, old cemeteries within its city limits.