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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.
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.
Abandoned Although the greater Holbrook area still has residents, the village proper is almost entirely abandoned. [57] Horatio: Jefferson County: Young Township: coal mining ghost town Huron: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: A coal mining ghost town. [58] Ingleby: Fowler Centre County: Haines Township: Instanter: Elk County: Submerged
Centralia, Pennsylvania. / 40.80333°N 76.34167°W / 40.80333; -76.34167. a Upon his death, Womer became the last official mayor of Centralia. Centralia is a borough and near- ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania.
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]
Lyon. Mineral. Nye. Pershing. Sto. Wash. White Pine. Most ghost towns in Nevada in the United States are former mining boomtowns that were abandoned when the mines closed. Those that were not set up as mining camps were usually established as locations for mills, or supply points for nearby mining operations.
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.
Abandoned One of the earliest settlements in Morgan County. [6] Apollo: Putnam: appeared on maps as late as 1955. [7] Argo: Fannin: Armstrong: Wilkes: Auraria: Lumpkin: Dean, Deans, Nuckollsville, Scuffle Town settled during the Georgia Gold Rush but declined after the California Gold Rush and Colorado Gold Rush. Barnett Shoals: Oconee: 1995 a ...