I guess that this is a topic that refuses to die, but for some validation of the original "ghost town" appellation... My 5-great grandfather Captain John Autry of the Georgia Militia was murdered and scalped by Creek Indians on Richland Creek near Scull Shoals on the Oconee River on 2 February 1788. Scull Shoals, then only a geographical feature, later sprouted a town of the same name. Among its other claims to fame was that the second cotton gin ever built was installed there. But time rapidly flowed around Scull Shoals as a town and all that is left is a stone foundation or two. It is now to be found at the northernmost extremity of the Oconee National Forest and is promoted by a tour as a "ghost town". For all intents and purposes, though, it is now an almost indistinguishable part of a wilderness. Any "ghost town" in Florida would be pretty much the same. RW Greg And Winnette wrote: >I think our ages are showing. Most of us >think of a ghost town like in the old westerns. >Deserted wooden buildings with an occasional >tumbleweed blowing around. > >Hard to imagine that in NW Florida. Too green. > >Winnette >