Category: West Virginia - United States Ghost Towns

Whitney, West Virginia Ghost Town

Mining ghosts and ruins tell haunting tales of Whitney, West Virginia’s abandoned coal town that once thrived with bustling life.

Discover the haunting ruins of Virginius Island, where 19th-century mill workers toiled before floods and war sealed its fate.

Witness the untold secrets of Thurmond, a forgotten railroad boomtown that once surpassed major cities in freight traffic.

Perched deep in West Virginia’s forgotten coal country, Stotesbury’s haunting ruins tell tales of a once-prosperous mining town now lost to time.

Discover the haunting secrets of Sewell’s abandoned coke ovens, where a once-thriving industrial empire now stands frozen in time.

Nestled in Appalachia’s misty peaks, Rutherford’s crumbling ruins whisper tales of coal fortunes and forgotten lives beneath sealed mine portals.

In this forgotten West Virginia ghost town, an innovative aerial tramway once transported coal across the gorge for over a century.

From bustling coal mines to silent ruins, Putney’s abandoned streets whisper tales of West Virginia’s vanished mining era.

Step into Pearlytown’s abandoned coal mines and crumbling company homes, where nature slowly reclaims this once-bustling Appalachian mining town.

Uncover the haunting remains of Lobelia, where abandoned coal mines and counterculture pioneers tell an unexpected Appalachian tale.