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Ruins of Ciudad Perdida, a city built by the Tayrona in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.
List of ghost towns in Maryland. Pentecostal Holiness Church ruins in Daniels. The following is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Maryland. Ghost towns can include sites in various states of disrepair and abandonment. Some sites no longer have any trace of civilization and have reverted to pasture land or empty fields.
Ghost town. Plymouth, Montserrat is the only ghost town that is the capital of a modern political territory. It was rendered uninhabitable and evacuated in 1995, after being inundated with volcanic ash from the eruption of the Soufrière Hills Volcano. A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement ...
Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser. The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park.
The Abandoned Pennsylvania Turnpike is the common name of a 13-mile (21 km) stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike that was bypassed in 1968 when a modern stretch opened to ease traffic congestion in the tunnels. In this case, the Sideling Hill Tunnel and Rays Hill Tunnel were bypassed, as was one of the Turnpike's travel plazas.
Site of one of the area's earliest post offices; now part of the city of Kenosha. Bagdad: Forest: 45°39′22″N 88°42′13″W: Belmont [1] [2] Lafayette: 40°46'7"N 90°22'49"W: 1836: 1837 First Wisconsin territorial capital; abandoned after one session. Located about three miles NW of the present town of Belmont. Benson's Corner [3] Nixon ...
Eureka City is an abandoned mining town in Mpumalanga. It is now a historical site. Diepgezet is an abandoned asbestos mining town in Mpumalanga. It was transferred to tribal land and renamed to Msauli. Leydsdorp is an abandoned mining town near Tzaneen in Limpopo province. [11] Millwood is an abandoned mining town near Knysna. [12]
Zone 5 uses eight 2-digit codes (51–58) and two sets of 3-digit codes (50x, 59x) to serve South and Central America. Zone 6 uses seven 2-digit codes (60–66) and three sets of 3-digit codes (67x–69x) to serve Southeast Asia and Oceania. Zone 7 uses an integrated numbering plan; two digits (7x) determine the area served: Russia or Kazakhstan.