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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.
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.
References. List of ghost towns in California. Appearance. Coordinates: 37°27′54″N121°58′28″W37.46500°N 121.97444°W. Ghost towns in California were caused by factors including the end of the California gold rush, the creation of new lakes, and the abandonment of formerly-used rail and motor routes. IMP.
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 ...
This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
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]
Bear City. Garland. 1882. Mostly woods and a few houses, some active. Small population, but has regained interest in recent years with new constructions and more people moving in. Written about by Donald Harrington and his wife in their book Let us Build Us a City.
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.