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Troy was a city located in northwest Anatolia in what is now Turkey. It is best known for being the focus of the Trojan War described in the Greek Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer. Repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt, the city slowly declined and was abandoned in the Byzantine era. Buried by ...
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.
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]
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 ...
Night in the Woods, a video game which takes place in the fictional semi-abandoned town of Possum Springs inspired by the creator's hometown in Pennsylvania; Coal mining in the United States; Pennsylvania. List of cities in Pennsylvania; List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania; List of counties in Pennsylvania
Clements (Hancock County) - small town in Eagle and Jackson Township. Cordelia (Hancock County) - small town in Orange Township, named Cordelta on some Railroad maps. Crow (Hancock County) - small town in Marion Township. Delaware Town, Ohio - is a ghost town in Coshocton County, Ohio.
Submerged. Remains of Almota were flooded by construction of the Little Goose Dam . Alpine. Skagit. Shore of Lake Cavanaugh, Skagit County. 1894. 1898. Abandoned. Established as a resort, the village had homes, a schoolhouse, a post office, and a nascent hotel.
This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2008) Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap Download coordinates as: KML GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) GPX (secondary coordinates) The province of Alberta has several ghost towns that have been completely or partially abandoned. Many of Alberta's ghost towns exist as a result of a number of failed coal ...