Author: Jason Smith - Page 279 - United States Ghost Towns

Old Bethel, Florida Ghost Town

Built atop Florida’s Yellow River, this ghost town’s eerie remains hint at its reign as the world’s yellow pine capital.

Florida’s forgotten frontier town of Okeelanta vanished after a devastating 1928 hurricane, but its pioneering spirit lives on.

Abandoned Florida lumber town Oakgrove holds haunting secrets beneath its crumbling foundations and rusted remnants of a once-thriving community.

Discover how a thriving Florida railroad town met its tragic demise through fire, floods, and an unlikely agricultural pest.

Newport’s once-thriving port town mysteriously vanished after the Civil War, leaving only scattered ruins along Florida’s Wakulla River.

A frontier town’s mysterious ruins hide beneath Florida’s soil, where soldiers and settlers once fought to survive the Seminole Wars.

Built on broken promises, this abandoned Florida settlement reveals a dark tale of religious manipulation and agricultural dreams gone wrong.

Lost beneath Florida’s wilderness, New Troy’s haunting ruins reveal a once-prosperous river town’s mysterious demise along the Suwannee.

Known for its abandoned Scottish citrus groves, Neilson’s haunting ruins reveal how a single freeze transformed a thriving community into desolation.

In 1816, a devastating cannon shot ended America’s largest free Black settlement, but the ruins still whisper untold stories of resistance.