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Pleasant Ridge [2] Grant. 42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W. c. 1850. 1959. Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s, Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people, approximately half of whom were African Americans, through the early 20th century. The last resident died in 1959.
Abandoned Established as a resort, the village had homes, a schoolhouse, a post office, and a nascent hotel. By 1906 it was described as deserted. [2] Alpine: King: Cascade Mountains near Skykomish: late 19th century c. 1929 Destroyed Alto: Columbia: Eleven or twelve miles north-east of Dayton. 1882 (post office established) 1903 (post office ...
Abandoned Current status Remarks Adamana: Apache: 1896: Semi-abandoned site: Originally the place was known as Adam Hanna's, as time passed and more people came to visit, the elision of a few letters gave us the name Adamana. Adamsville: Sanford Pinal: 1866: 1920s: Neglected site: Original farming town mostly destroyed in a flood, now farmland.
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Urban exploration (often shortened as UE, urbex, and sometimes known as roof and tunnel hacking [1]) is the exploration of manmade structures, usually abandoned ruins or hidden components of the manmade environment. Photography and historical interest/documentation are heavily featured in the hobby, sometimes involving trespassing onto private ...
Railroad sign for Constitution, in Dekalb County, which was absorbed into Atlanta. The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Georgia. Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields.
The town was on Little Rapid Creek, near where Little Gimlet Creek enters it. [12] Farmingdale: Pennington: Abandoned: The ghost town of Farmingdale is named after the surrounding area, being capable of sustaining farmland. The town rests on the banks of Rapid Creek. The abandoned railroad grade and State Route 44 cut through the center of town ...
A logging town located near Route 555 in Driftwood. [54] Holbrook: Greene County: Abandoned Although the greater Holbrook area still has residents, the village proper is almost entirely abandoned. [57] Horatio: Jefferson County: Young Township: coal mining ghost town Huron: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: A coal mining ghost town. [58 ...