The New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad (NCFRR) was one of the first railroads in the United States. The railroad only operated for 28 years; as newer, more direct railways were built, the New Castle and Frenchtown Railroad was abandoned, and then without a commercial artery, the town of Frenchtown was also deserted. This obsolescence of the railroad and town is analogous to digital technological loss in its root in the movement of capital and technological change. In this project, I use the archive in conjunction with contemporary data to try and recreate a ghost without its community. In the process of this re-creation, I use techniques of glitch, loss, and layering to question the role of data, archives, and recreation in understanding place, loss and memory.   

notatownbutalandingpage.com, 2025. Web site.  

Frenchtown was a town made to be turned into a ghost, 2024. Artist Book, 14” x 9.25”