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This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania. Many of the ghost towns in Pennsylvania are located in Western Pennsylvania, particularly in the Appalachian and Allegheny regions of the Rust Belt. [1] During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. [2]
The following are approximate tallies of current listings in Pennsylvania on the National Register of Historic Places.These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]
Pithole is located in northwestern Pennsylvania, 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Erie and 103 miles (166 km) north-northeast of Pittsburgh. The nearest cities to Pithole are Titusville , approximately 8 miles (13 km) to the northwest, and Oil City , 9 miles (14 km) to the southwest.
Tatterson said that she visited the prison in 2009 during a tour of East Coast abandoned places. She captured the prison in 20 photos. A description winds the reader through the history of the ...
Roughly bounded by the Youghiogheny River, the former Elwell Branch of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroad tracks, and Elwell Run, at Whitsett, Perry Township, Pennsylvania Coordinates 40°06′22″N 79°46′21″W / 40.10611°N 79.77250°W / 40.10611; -79
Livermore, Pennsylvania is an abandoned town that was located on the Conemaugh River between Blairsville and Saltsburg in Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. The town was abandoned and partially razed in the early 1950s following authorization by the Flood Control Act of 1936 and Flood Control Act of 1938 for construction of the ...
The Fort Pitt Block House (sometimes called Bouquet's Blockhouse [6] or Bouquet's Redoubt [7]) is a historic building in Point State Park in the city of Pittsburgh.It was constructed in 1764 as a redoubt of Fort Pitt, making it the oldest extant structure in Western Pennsylvania, [8] as well as the "oldest authenticated structure west of the Allegheny Mountains".
The French bulldog was found abandoned and "unattended in a stroller" in the Pittsburgh International Airport's short-term parking lot. Pennsylvania dog owner faces cruelty charges; pet abandoned ...