
This Ghost Town Road Trip in Oregon is ... - That Oregon Life
Tucked away in the trees and nestled in Oregon's Elkhorn Mountain Range, lies the historic gold mining town of Sumpter. Three Carolinans settled here in the 1960s and started farming. They called their homestead Fort Sumter, but when gold was found and the valley was overrun with Northern sympathizer miners, the name was changed to Sumpter.