Downtown Elberton,1899.
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Some of Elberton's first residents and buildings. These men are standing in front of the town's bank,and next door is the Post Office.
Image Courtesy of Whitman County Rural Heritage,
http://www.washingtonruralheritage.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/whitman/id/1455/rec/5
This file appears in: Ghost Town of Elberton
Ghost Town of Elberton
The towns of the Palouse followed similar patterns of early growth as white settlers flooded into the area, followed by a long and gradual decline with the greater mechanization of farming. Some simply vanished. Today,the ghost town of Elberton…