Author: Jason Smith - Page 27 - United States Ghost Towns

White Pigeon, Iowa Ghost Town

Hidden beneath Iowa’s farmland, White Pigeon’s pioneer past tells a story of frontier dreams that faded into ghostly whispers.

Hidden beneath Illinois farmland lies White Oak Springs, a forgotten 1830s settlement that vanished mysteriously after less than a decade.

This abandoned Idaho copper town holds $47.5 million in secrets, where century-old mining relics tell tales of frontier dreams.

This ambitious Illinois ghost town nearly became home to 50,000 people before the government transformed it into Fermilab’s site.

Known for its mysterious Shaker past, West Union’s ruins hide forgotten stories of frontier life along Indiana’s Busseron Creek.

Mysterious Waterloo vanished beneath Mississippi floodwaters in 1884, leaving only whispers of smugglers, outlaws, and buried treasure behind.

Abandoned in 1854, Washington’s ghostly remains hold secrets of Alabama’s forgotten territorial capital beneath quiet farmland.

Known for its $600,000 daily gold yields in 1863, Washington Basin’s ghost town ruins whisper tales of fortune-seeking miners and untold treasures.

Warrenton’s brief reign as Warren County’s first seat ended mysteriously in 1828, leaving only traces of its seven-block frontier settlement.

Gold seekers’ dreams live on in Warren, Idaho’s remote ghost town, where abandoned mines whisper tales of fortune and frontier life.