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Across the prairies exist numerous ghost towns, and in some cases these places have disappeared almost entirely, except for remnants of foundations and a convenient geographical location on a map. 

Alderson (earlier known as Langevin, and Carlstadt) is one of these places.  At the peak of promise there was a train station, two round-the clock restaurants, three hotels, and a number of smithies, stores, liveries and other businesses.

Today, nothing remains except evidence of some of the foundations, and the worn grading of the streets. 

  
Main street Carlstadt was a busy place year-round early in the second decade of the twentieth century with a pool hall and bars, the Carlstadt Hotel, and England and England Hay and Grain. These businesses which seemed to appear overnight gave the community a real frontier feel

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