Welcome Friends of Old Ghost Towns
Shaniko is a Ghost Town even though people live there.
Places of legitimate community and commerce that for various reasons become shadows of their former existence are called ghost towns. Some who study such towns catagorize them into three types; one still inhabited, one deserted, and one known only by the ground it once occupied.
Places of legitimate community and commerce that for various reasons become shadows of their former existence are called ghost towns. Some who study such towns catagorize them into three types; one still inhabited, one deserted, and one known only by the ground it once occupied.
The building below and those to the left from 1901 still exist today as a Gift Shop, the Old City Hall and the Shaniko Hotel.
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View of Shaniko from the Columbia Southern Railroad Roundhouse. 1901 Shaniko, created in 1900 as shipping center and as a railroad terminus, Shaniko earned the title of the largest inland wool shipping center in the world by 1903 and held that title until a few years after the business district burned in 1911.
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