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This is a list of lists of ghost towns in the United States by state. List of ghost towns in Alabama; List of ghost towns in Alaska; List of ghost towns in Arizona;
Towns are evacuated several years in advance and turned into ghost towns. When the pit reaches the towns they are finally torn down. [citation needed] Bonnland, Gruorn, Lopau, Wollseifen and others are ghost towns created as part of the creation of military training areas. [citation needed]
Bannack, Montana a ghost town reportedly haunted by executed outlaws and a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy. [91] Bannack, a ghost town, was founded in 1862 and named after the Bannock Indian tribe. Several claims of hauntings have been made there, including the apparition of a woman in a blue gown named Dorothy who drowned in Grasshopper Creek.
Like so many creepy ghost towns, Goldfield, as the name implies, was once a thriving mining community. In fact, the boom was so big in the 1890s that Goldfield, on the legendary Apache Trail, was ...
Mining towns were abandoned when the mines closed, largely due to the devaluation of silver in 1893. Mill towns were abandoned when the mining towns they serviced closed. Farming towns on the eastern plains were often deserted due to rural depopulation. Coal towns were abandoned when the coal (or the need for it) ran out.
Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town. [488] Toyah: Reeves: Semi-abandoned site [489] Toyahvale: Reeves [490] Towash: Hill: No longer exists. [491] Trickham: Coleman: Semi-abandoned Neither the Texas Almanac nor the Handbook of Texas classify this a ghost town, with a year-2000 population of 12 residents ...
Top 10 States That Will Give You the Creeps. Not all fodder for ghost stories is ancient history. Many of the creepiest places in America are those where persistent housing and income inequality ...
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).