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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.
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]
Abandoned Current status Remarks Agnes: Lincoln: 1889 1955 [1] A small Hamlet located away from waterways or railroads. [2] Allatoona: Bartow: Lake Allatoona: 1838 [3] 1949 [4] Submerged Flooded in the mid-1940s to create Lake Allatoona, today a recreational spot. In the 1980s, low water levels allowed remnants of the town to be visible from ...
[20] Blue Rock: Elk County: Along the Clarion-Little Toby Trail, connected to Ellmont, another ghost town, by the local landmark Blue Rock Swinging Bridge. [21] Bracken: Indiana County: A coal mining ghost town [citation needed] along the Ghost Town Trail. [10] Braddock: Allegheny County: N/A Semi-abandoned
Delaware Town, Ohio - is a ghost town in Coshocton County, Ohio. El Rose (Hancock County) - small town in Orange Township with Rail station but not much business. Elk Lick (Destroyed and flooded after construction of William H. Harsha Lake) [citation needed] Elm Grove (Hancock County) - small town in Marion Township.
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 ...
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.