In Search Of A Ghost Town
“This scenic Mississippi River site provided Native American food, shelter, and transportation for over 9000 years. Count Frontenac, the Governor of New France, sponsored the first European explorers to this area in 1680.
James (Bully)Wells established a fur trading post in 1840. In 1854, Evert Westervelt opened the first store in “Western Landing”. Isreal and Lewis Garrand brought resources and craftsmen to build an aristocratic frontier city and in 1857 platted the town Westervelt.
The village was renamed Frontenac in 1859 and prospered in fur trading, logging, limestone and hospitality.”
~Frontenac Heritage Preservation Commission
Mallie Fox is co-host of the radio and podcast program www.DarknessRadio.com. She has had a lifetime interest in all things paranormal.
wow, Very cool place you picked to take a day trip. Did you stay at night and go in that old house you showed in the pics? That loooks like there are many ghost in that place. keep them coming.
see ya Henry from NJ
Paranormal Girl,
With your investigations into the paranormal, have you ever researched the occult?
The James J. Hill house in St. Paul is one more notable local examples of occult symbolism and numerology in its design and architecture that goes mainly unnoticed by the by the general public as they tour the house. It was not uncommon for wealthy people of his day to display this symbolism in their home décor to ‘signal’ to other occult members their secret affiliations. The Adept adherents believe that there is great mystical power embedded in the use of these symbols and the greatest power is derived by displaying them in broad daylight so to speak without the untrained masses ever knowing what these symbols represent.
Once you know how to read ‘their language’, you be able to see them all around you as you never did before. You’ll never look at the world around you in the same way again.
T
Is it me, or is it strange that a ghost town and a mostly forgotten cemetary still draws people to place flags at the graves of people that died over 100 years ago? Are the decendents of these people still in the area and returning year after year on say the 4th of July to place flags at the graves of their loved ones?
One more thing… in the cemetary it seems as if the grass had been mowed as some point withing the past couple weeks. Also the lawn of the abandoned house looked well kept. Is somone mowing the lawn of this place? If so… why?
BTW, looks really quaint and pretty during daylight. I bet it looks vastly different, and creppy, at night.
JS
MN
Hey JS,
That was one of the nice things about this lovely place. Even though it was practically a ghost town, there are people who take the time to still care for the area. The empty house actually is surrounded by a few homes that people do live in and I’m sure they take care of the abandoned home as if it was their own. It’s also a comforting thought to think that the dead have not been forgotten.
Thanks JS for visiting my site. Take care!
Hi Tracy,
I haven’t had to do any occult research before an investigation and I’ve been to the James J. Hill house several times and never noticed any occult signs. Now, I’m definitely going to have to keep my eyes open.
Hi Henry,
No, I didn’t stay overnight. I think that if I would have tried to sleep in that house, I would have fallen through the floor. The place was dangerous.
Thanks for checking out my site.
Take care!
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Beautiful place. Love places that seem untouched.