Carolside is a hamlet and

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located in

Special Area No. 2 Special Area No. 2 is a Special Areas Board, special area in Southern Alberta, southern Alberta, Canada. It is a rural municipality similar to a List of municipal districts in Alberta, municipal district; however, the elected council is overseen ...

Alberta Alberta is a Provinces and territories of Canada, province in Canada. It is a part of Western Canada and is one of the three Canadian Prairies, prairie provinces. Alberta is bordered by British Columbia to its west, Saskatchewan to its east, t ...

, Canada. Carolside was established in 1919 when the

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was constructed in the area. The hamlet was planned to have a grocery store, grain elevators, a trains station, a hardware store, a feed mill, and a manufacturing plant. By the 1950s, the new settlement was abandoned, having suffered serious blows caused by the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the

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. The railway line through the settlement was closed in the 1970s. There are no longer any buildings or structures left in Carolside, and that remains is the concrete foundation of the grain elevator and the faint remnants of the hamlets streets. In between Carolside and the hamlet of

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there is the Carolside Reservoir and Campground, named after the hamlet, which was the site of the discovery of

Mosasaur Mosasaurs (from Latin ''Mosa'' meaning the 'Meuse', and Ancient Greek, Greek ' meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Their first fossil remains wer ...

remains in the 2010s. To commemorate this discovery, there is a sculpture of the Mosasaur at the reservoir.

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Hamlets in Alberta {{CentralAlberta-geo-stub

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