Author: Jason Smith - Page 75 - United States Ghost Towns

Shipton, Kansas Ghost Town

Hidden among Kansas prairie lies Shipton’s haunting ruins, where zinc miners once carved fortunes from earth before nature reclaimed its domain.

Located in Finney County, Sherlock’s ghost town vanished when a rival city’s sugar factory deal lured away its frontier residents.

This notorious Kansas ghost town harbored 2,000 souls, four murders monthly, and a wild chapter of American frontier life.

Uncover the haunting tale of Shaffer, Kansas, where a lone pioneer’s dream became a thriving town before vanishing into history.

Historic Kansas railroad town Saxman once boasted a presidential brass band, but what caused this thriving community’s mysterious decline?

Nestled in south-central Kansas, Saratoga’s haunting ruins reveal a once-thriving prairie town’s dramatic rise and mysterious fall.

When a thriving frontier town of 2,000 vanished without a trace, Santa Fe’s dramatic story became Kansas’ most intriguing ghost town mystery.

Nearly 500 pioneers built Salem into a thriving Kansas town, until one fateful railroad decision changed everything.

In 1880s Kansas, Irish immigrant Ned Turnley built a peculiar British paradise that would soon become a haunting prairie ghost town.

Ghost town Roxbury’s abandoned Main Street whispers tales of Swedish pioneers and forgotten dreams in Kansas’ Gypsum Valley.