one of the sort of unquestioned myths of american history is that even during our various regional booms that brought a lot of infrastructure and created various towns were like stable and durable things and not short lived slash and burn value extractions
we visit lots of places that have been growing ancient and mythical in the woods for a century plus, and these things often were built and then closed down fairly quickly.
something in your brain says "big ancient structure must have been in use for a long time" and no, a lot of times it's like "these coke furnaces were built in 1905 by the Totally Stable Coal Company and closed in 1907"
you find these amazing structures that have endured 100 winters and find out they are the ruins of what was the extraction industry version of fyre fest
The ancient castle from Ico was built 1000 years ago but only used for like 6 weeks tops before being abandoned
Spirit Halloween store is far more the norm than the exception when it comes to how capitalist industry comes and goes from an area.
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