I'm going to take a different viewpoint on this. I think "ghost towns" is a perfectly appropriate term for a community that included a few stores, post office, cotton gin, sawmill, grist mill, steamboat landing, etc. You can travel the western U.S. and see far smaller "ghost towns" than that. In fact, you can travel Florida today and see far smaller "cities" than some of the "ghost towns" being discussed here. Parramore, for example, at its height was far bigger than several modern day Jackson County "towns." Best, Dale Cox

My comments was based on the definition of a "ghost town" taken from the Webster's New Word Dictionary not what I thought a term should or should not mean. Towns, communities, cities, and villages are all defined words and don't convey the same meaning if standard acceptable terminology is used. You can use "ghost town" as a generic term to refer to a pile of rocks to a city of one million people but when the term is used it should be so defined so that effective communications can take place. The equation "1 + 1 =10" is accurate and correct but won't convey the correct meaning unless I tell you that I am using the binary system of numbers not the decimal system. James James L. Edenfield Website: http://edenfield.org Email: [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 10:02 AM Subject: Re: [FLJACKSO] "Ghost towns" I'm going to take a different viewpoint on this. I think "ghost towns" is a perfectly appropriate term for a community that included a few stores, post office, cotton gin, sawmill, grist mill, steamboat landing, etc. You can travel the western U.S. and see far smaller "ghost towns" than that. In fact, you can travel Florida today and see far smaller "cities" than some of the "ghost towns" being discussed here. Parramore, for example, at its height was far bigger than several modern day Jackson County "towns." Best, Dale Cox