The once-substantial town of Fullerton in Vernon Parish was a lumber mill site that became a ghost town within less than three decades' time.

This widely-shared photograph depicts the very fancy mansion in Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas, that once housed members of John and Clara (nee Easley) Belcher. The Belchers didn't live in Gainesville very long, but left some historic traces in North Texas. And because this photograph has been shared but not researched as much, I thought I'd give it a go!

A muggy Summer day's adventure into downtown Dallas revealed what Bonnie Parker, partner in crime to Clyde Barrow, called "the Great Divide."

Where's Frog Level, you ask? You may know it better as Rodessa, Caddo Parish, Louisiana, an oil boom town that went bust.

Enjoying the history of Burkburnett's "Oil Pool" using Lidar!

The mouth of the Red River was at a place that no longer exists: Red River Landing in Pointe Coupee Parish.

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

Today, you'll have to WANT to go to Arkinda to get to Arkinda, formerly known as Choctaw City in Little River County, Arkansas.

Hickory Creek in Denton County, Texas may be named for Hickory, a much older settlement that history has forgotten.

Burneyville's hotel was once a real beauty, but nothing remains of it.

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

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

Basin Springs, Steedman aka Hagerman, and Cedar Mills and were drowned by Lake Texoma.

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

What may be the final photo of the ferry at Fulton, Hempstead County, Arkansas which crossed the Red River just below the Great Bend.

By the late 1830s, Boggy Depot centered the Choctaw/ Chickasaw Nation.

There was the once-large town of Gotebo, Oklahoma.

Roosevelt has disproportionately more cars than it does humans, but the cars are what keep the humans in Roosevelt.

Tatums in Carter County, Oklahoma was an all-black town that enjoyed a brief oil boom.

Doaksville in Choctaw County, Oklahoma is now a ghost town but was once a very important place.