Author: Jason Smith - Page 5 - United States Ghost Towns

Shell City, Minnesota Ghost Town

What secrets lie beneath Shell City’s abandoned streets, where Minnesota pioneers once harvested pearls and carved out frontier dreams?

Nestled beneath Yough Lake’s waters lie the haunting remnants of Selbysport, a once-thriving Maryland railroad town lost to progress.

Near the Minnesota River lies a lost pioneer town’s haunting story of floods, politics, and frontier dreams gone wrong.

From abandoned grain elevators to a lonely Lutheran church, Radium’s ghostly remains tell tales of Minnesota’s vanishing railroad towns.

Uncover the haunting remains of Pomme de Terre, where 19th-century pioneers carved out a life before railroads sealed its fate.

Glimpse into Pitt’s abandoned quarries, where a once-thriving sandstone mining town now lies silent beneath Minnesota’s wilderness.

Glimpse into Pinewood’s forgotten frontier past, where abandoned foundations whisper stories of Minnesota’s vanished logging empire.

This vanished Minnesota railroad town holds secrets in its scattered foundations, where a pickle factory and bustling community once thrived.

When railroads bypassed this former Minnesota county seat, Pelan’s bustling frontier community of 175 slowly faded into ghostly remnants.

Lost frontier dreams echo through Parkton’s ruins, where a thriving 1860s Minnesota town crumbled after being bypassed by the railroad.