Author: Jason Smith - Page 83 - United States Ghost Towns

Lindsey, Kansas Ghost Town

Built as Ayersburgh in 1864, this Kansas ghost town’s remaining grain elevator tells a story of frontier dreams and vanished hopes.

Pro-slavery settlers built Lexington into a thriving frontier town in 1855, but its haunting ruins tell a darker tale of Kansas’s past.

From bustling frontier dreams to silent prairie graves, Lerado’s ghost town tells a bittersweet tale of railroad hopes dashed.

Discover the chilling legacy of Leota, where a deadly county seat war transformed a bustling frontier town into haunting ruins.

Hidden within Kansas’s rolling hills, Lecompton’s abandoned territorial capitol reveals a ghost town’s dramatic fall from political power.

Sinister ruins of Le Hunt’s abandoned cement factory hold dark secrets from when company workers mysteriously vanished in 1905.

A frontier town’s dark past lurks beneath Lake Sibley’s waters, where Native raids and mysterious drownings sealed its haunting fate.

Once a bustling frontier town of 350 residents, Lake City’s abandoned buildings now stand silent among Kansas’ striking red buttes.

From a booming frontier town of 1,500 to a lonely cemetery, Ladore’s dark past of vigilante justice holds haunting secrets.

Underneath Kansas’s prairie grass lies Kipp’s haunting remains, where a once-thriving frontier community mysteriously faded into history.