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Motor, Iowa Ghost Town

Discover why five limestone buildings stand frozen in time along Iowa’s Turkey River in this haunting pioneer tale.

Located southeast of Iowa City, Midway’s rise and fall as a bustling farming settlement reveals Iowa’s forgotten pioneer past.

From bustling farm town to haunting ruins, Littleport’s abandoned buildings tell a story of prosperity lost to devastating floods.

Journey through Lakewood’s forgotten streets, where a thriving Iowa settlement mysteriously vanished into the quiet countryside.

Uncovering the haunting tale of Ivanhoe, Iowa, where ambitious dreams of a university town crumbled into ghostly ruins along the Cedar River.

Where Iowa’s lost frontier town of Iowaville once thrived, only buried artifacts and mysteries remain beneath modern farmland.

In 1858, Hinkletown rose as a promising frontier settlement, only to vanish when railroads chose different paths through Iowa.

Nestled along Iowa’s historic railways, Green Valley’s haunting ruins tell tales of a once-thriving farming community that mysteriously faded away.

This thriving Mississippi River town vanished beneath the waters in 1965, leaving only memories and mysteries behind.

Catastrophic floods in 2004 transformed Elkport from a thriving Iowa river town into an abandoned ghost town reclaimed by nature.