Industrial Ghost Towns Hub

America’s industrial ghost towns are a category unto themselves. Steel towns, coal towns, copper smelter communities, and factory cities that were built around a single industry and collapsed when that industry failed – these are the ghost towns of the modern era. Industrial ghost towns are found from the coal fields of Appalachia to the Rust Belt cities of the Great Lakes, from the copper country of Michigan to the mining districts of the Southwest.

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Jason Smith has authored ghost town books covering the industrial regions of Appalachia, the Midwest, and the mountain West.

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