#timesbeach #ghosttown #history #dioxin Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles southwest of St. Louis . Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to dioxin contamination. It was the largest civilian exposure to this compound in the history of the United States. In 1985, the State of Missouri officially disincorporated the city. The site of Times Beach is now a 419-acre state park commemorating U.S. Route 66. Times beach would have a worrying similarity to the ghost towns of Centralia and The Love Canal. Learn while you're at home with Plainly Difficult! Want to become a channel member?https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0MyY46T9ZYOzDHkYnIoXg/join Paypal Donate Link: https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=KC293ZJVG2VZG&source=url Help the Channel Grow Like, Comment & Subscribe! Subscribe Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCb0M... Equipment used in this video: Rode NTG3, Audient ID4, MacBook Pro 16, Hitfilm, Garage Band Check out My Twitter: https://twitter.com/Plainly_D Check out these other great channels: https://www.youtube.com/user/dominotitanic20/community https://www.youtube.com/user/CynicalC... https://www.youtube.com/user/JabzyJoe https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGHDQtN_vzFYJaq_Fx1eikg Sources: https://www.epa.gov/mo/town-flood-and-superfund-looking-back-times-beach-disaster-nearly-40-years-later https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/hhe/reports/pdfs/83-91-1637.pdf https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood-states-mo https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/times-beach-residents-win-fight-relocation-contaminated-dioxin-sites http://nowiknow.com/paved-with-good-intentions/ Joseph Sohm / Shutterstock.com https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-RCED-96-13/html/GAOREPORTS-RCED-96-13.htm