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May 11, 2012

Oil boom resurrects North Dakota ghost town

  • Hundreds of improvised dwellings for oil workers are expected to be built in Dore, which a few years ago was home to just two people.
    • By JAMES MacPHERSON
    Associated Press

    DORE, N.D. — For more than three decades, Kerry and Darrell Finsaas were all that kept this blink-and-you-miss-it North Dakota community from becoming completely deserted.

    As Dore's only residents, they lived in a ghost town on the desolate northern Plains. But now the couple has neighbors — and lots of them. The all-but-forgotten former farming village has been reborn as a hub of oil activity. And it may not be the last abandoned settlement to be resurrected from the dust.


     
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