Author: Jason Smith - Page 175 - United States Ghost Towns

Ulysses, Kansas Ghost Town

Facing crushing debt in 1909, an entire Kansas town chose to relocate rather than become a ghost town.

Kansas’s Twin Mound ghost town, marked by two natural mounds, holds secrets of abolitionists and pioneers beneath its prairie grass.

Trousdale’s abandoned storefronts and quiet streets whisper tales of a once-bustling Kansas railroad town that refused to completely disappear.

From mining boomtown to toxic ghost town, Treece, Kansas stands as a haunting reminder of industrial prosperity’s deadly price.

Just outside Coolidge, Kansas lies Trail City’s ghostly remains, where 300,000 cattle and countless outlaws once ruled the untamed frontier.

Hidden within Kansas’s frontier past, Trading Post witnessed bloody slave-state conflicts and John Brown’s crusade before fading into history.

Witness the haunting remains of Touzalin, Kansas, where a once-prosperous mining town’s 3,000 residents vanished into frontier history.

Built as a thriving Kansas railway town in the 1870s, Tontzville met its fate through drought, economic decline, and ultimate abandonment.

Lost to time in Kansas’s Flint Hills, Toledo’s haunting ruins whisper tales of pioneer dreams and unexplained mysteries.

Buried deep in Chase County’s prairie, Thurman’s ghostly remnants whisper tales of 51 pioneer families who vanished without a trace.