Author: Jason Smith - Page 71 - United States Ghost Towns

Veteran, Kansas Ghost Town

Built as a Missouri River trading post, Veteran, Kansas flourished before nature and changing transportation spelled doom for this frontier town.

Cherokee County’s forgotten mining town, Vega, reveals a dramatic tale of boom and bust beneath Kansas prairie grasses.

When pioneers abandoned this once-thriving Kansas trail town in 1859, they left behind haunting reminders of cholera’s devastating toll.

Devastating cholera wiped out half of Union Center’s population in 1849, leaving behind haunting ruins of a once-bustling Kansas trading post.

Facing crushing debt in 1909, an entire Kansas town chose to relocate rather than become a ghost town.

Kansas’s Twin Mound ghost town, marked by two natural mounds, holds secrets of abolitionists and pioneers beneath its prairie grass.

Trousdale’s abandoned storefronts and quiet streets whisper tales of a once-bustling Kansas railroad town that refused to completely disappear.

From mining boomtown to toxic ghost town, Treece, Kansas stands as a haunting reminder of industrial prosperity’s deadly price.

Just outside Coolidge, Kansas lies Trail City’s ghostly remains, where 300,000 cattle and countless outlaws once ruled the untamed frontier.

Hidden within Kansas’s frontier past, Trading Post witnessed bloody slave-state conflicts and John Brown’s crusade before fading into history.