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Preston, South Dakota Ghost Town

Journey to Preston’s haunted ruins in South Dakota’s Black Hills, where gold fever once turned 300 prospectors’ dreams to dust.

John “Potato Creek Johnny” Perrett’s fabled gold discovery put this Black Hills ghost town on the map before nature reclaimed its remains.

Located in South Dakota’s railroad country, Postville thrived until a devastating tornado erased this frontier town’s final chapter.

Seduced by golden dreams, miners flocked to Poorman’s Gulch in 1874, but what they discovered there would change their lives forever.

Nestled between Lead and Deadwood, Pluma’s abandoned gold mills whisper tales of South Dakota’s mining glory days.

In South Dakota’s Black Hills, Placerville’s abandoned mines and crumbling ruins whisper tales of gold fever and broken treaties.

In the heart of South Dakota’s Black Hills, Pinkerton’s abandoned mines and weathered buildings whisper tales of gold rush glory.

Secrets of Pine Grove’s $8 million gold rush linger in the Black Hills, where abandoned mines whisper tales of frontier dreams.

Mining fortune and frontier dreams collide in Perry, South Dakota’s haunting ruins, where gypsum once promised riches in the Black Hills.

Discover the haunting remains of Pedro, a Black Hills mining town where Carrie Ingalls once published local stories before tragedy struck.