Inside Upstate NY's ABANDONED Ghost Town

Get my weekly Upstate NY newsletter: https://gabsmall.com/newsletter/ Deep in the Adirondack Mountains, there's a ghost town most people have never even heard of. The craziest part is that it wasn't abandoned just once. It was abandoned twice. Tahawus was once home to the largest titanium mine in the world. Founded in 1826 by the Adirondack Iron & Steel Company, it collapsed under the weight of impossible mountain terrain and ore so loaded with titanium they couldn't smelt it. The town was abandoned and swallowed by the wilderness. But then, decades later, Tahawus was resurrected by WWII demand for titanium dioxide. National Lead Industries moved back in, built a company town, extracted 40 million tons of titanium… and left again in 1989. And so Tahawus was abandoned for a second time. I drove deep into the Adirondacks, where there's no cell service or gas stations, to find what's left. The 1856 McIntyre Iron Blast Furnace standing nearly 60 feet tall. The McNaughton Cottage, where Roosevelt slept and where a bank once printed its own money. Henderson Lake, where the Hudson River quietly begins. And the nearby town of Newcomb, which still hasn't recovered from losing that mine. This is 6 million acres of the largest publicly protected wilderness in the continental U.S...and it's hiding stories nobody talks about. 📍 Upstate New York | Adirondacks | Tahawus