Author: Jason Smith - Page 180 - United States Ghost Towns

Ranney, Wisconsin Ghost Town

Knowing the abandoned foundations of Ranney’s Dairy reveals a bittersweet tale of Wisconsin’s once-thriving ice cream empire.

A bustling Wisconsin town vanished beneath Castle Rock Lake in 1948, leaving behind underwater secrets waiting to be discovered.

Just when Pokerville’s poker games and lead mines brought wild success to frontier Wisconsin, mysterious forces conspired to erase it from existence.

Once considered lost to time, Pendarvis’s preserved Cornish mining cottages reveal fascinating secrets of Wisconsin’s 1830s frontier settlement.

Built by Swedish pioneers in 1841, Nya Upsala’s abandoned ruins tell a bittersweet tale of immigration dreams in Wisconsin’s wilderness.

Hidden among Adams County’s pines, New Chester’s crumbling foundations and forgotten cemetery tell tales of Wisconsin’s vanished pioneer dreams.

Ghostly remnants of Wisconsin’s first Norwegian settlement hint at the tragic epidemics that forced pioneers to flee their community forever.

This abandoned logging settlement near Heafford Junction holds secrets of Scottish immigrants who vanished along with Wisconsin’s timber boom.

Journey through Little Wolf’s haunting ruins, where abandoned sawmills and forgotten graves whisper stories of Wisconsin’s lumber boom.

Hidden beneath modern Appleton lies Lawesburg, a lost pioneer settlement that shaped Wisconsin’s Fox River Valley before mysteriously vanishing.