Author: Jason Smith - Page 49 - United States Ghost Towns

Stringtown/Woodstock, Kansas Ghost Town

Kansas coal mining boomtown Stringtown rose and fell within decades, leaving only memories of its 19th-century frontier prosperity.

Peek beneath Kansas’s John Redmond Reservoir to discover Strawn, a submerged ghost town with an extraordinary tale of communal survival.

Ghost town Strawberry flourished with wild berries and pioneer dreams until economic hardship turned this Kansas settlement into abandoned ruins.

Ghost town Stockdale lies beneath Kansas waters, waiting to reveal its pioneer secrets when Tuttle Creek Lake recedes.

Pro-slavery militants and abolitionists once clashed in Stanton, Kansas, leaving behind haunting ruins that whisper stories of a violent past.

In 1880s Kansas, Springfield’s rise and fall from frontier boomtown to ghostly ruins reveals the fleeting nature of railroad dreams.

Curious pioneers built Springdale into a thriving Irish settlement before nature and economics transformed it into Kansas’ forgotten ghost town.

Founded in 1885 around artesian wells, Spring Lake and Artesian City vanished as their life-giving waters slowly disappeared beneath Kansas soil.

Gold fever lured settlers to Smoky Hill City, Kansas in 1899, but this once-promising mining town now stands frozen in time.

Just outside Augusta lies Smileyberg, where crumbling buildings whisper tales of two settlers’ forgotten prairie dreams.