Author: Jason Smith - Page 134 - United States Ghost Towns

Starrville, Texas Ghost Town

A Methodist preacher’s vision for a thriving Texas town mysteriously crumbled after the Civil War, leaving only echoes of its former glory.

This abandoned Texas port town’s haunting ruins tell a tale of Civil War raids, devastating hurricanes, and forgotten maritime glory.

Ghost town Spurlin’s crumbling ruins tell the tale of a forgotten Texas ranching community bypassed by progress.

A historic ghost town where Native Americans and French traders—not Spanish soldiers—forged alliances now stands frozen in time.

A rural Texas ghost town that began with two pioneers in 1856 vanished into Irving’s suburbs, leaving only weathered gravestones behind.

Just north of Big Spring lies Soash’s haunting ruins, where a frontier town’s grand dreams crumbled into concrete ghosts.

This once-bustling Texas frontier town, home to Masons and oil booms, now stands frozen in time with haunting reminders.

Mexican-American miners built a thriving community near El Paso, until toxic lead forced them to abandon their beloved Smeltertown forever.

Witness the eerie remains of Slide, Texas, where a mysterious landslide displaced an entire pioneer town in the 1890s.

A forgotten Texas trading post turned ghost town, Sivells Bend whispers tales of frontier life along the Red River’s untamed shores.