Category: Kansas - Page 8 - United States Ghost Towns

Salem, Kansas Ghost Town

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.

Uncover how this bustling Kansas railroad town of 600 residents transformed into a haunting ghost town with just 149 souls.

Near Buffalo Bill Cody’s former frontier town, Rome’s abandoned ruins tell a tale of fierce rivalry and fleeting frontier dreams.

Under Kansas prairies lies Rollin’s forgotten tale of coal mines, pioneer dreams, and a ghostly hilltop cemetery watching time slip away.

When a thriving frontier boomtown vanished into Kansas prairie, Rising Sun’s dramatic story of gambling, gunfights and broken dreams remained.

Ghost town Richmond’s buried secrets reveal a dark chapter of Kansas’ pro-slavery past and territorial power struggles.

A thriving Kansas prairie town now lies submerged beneath Clinton Lake’s waters, its pioneer stories preserved in the depths below.

Known as a thriving railroad town before its decline, Reece, Kansas holds forgotten stories of Welsh pioneers and rural postal history.