Southern Suburban Ghost Towns

The American South’s suburban and small town landscape hides dozens of communities that were bypassed by development and left behind. Former crossroads towns that lost their commercial role when the highways bypassed them, small industrial communities that lost their anchor employer, and rural service centers emptied by the consolidation of agriculture all created a distinctive category of Southern ghost town that differs from the dramatic Western mining town but carries its own quiet melancholy.

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Jason Smith’s Southeast ghost town volumes cover the Southern states’ most compelling abandoned communities.

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