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Bannack, a Montana ghost town. This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Montana.. A ghost town is a town or city which has lost all of its businesses and population. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economic activity that supported it has failed, or due to natural or human-caused disasters such as a flood, government action, uncontrolled lawlessness, or war.
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Bannack is a ghost town in Beaverhead County, Montana, United States, located on Grasshopper Creek, approximately 11 miles (18 km) upstream from where Grasshopper Creek joins with the Beaverhead River south of Dillon. Founded in 1862, the town is a National Historic Landmark managed by the state of Montana as Bannack State Park. [3]
Wells Hotel, Garnet Ghost Town, Montana The town was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Garnet Historic District , a historic district , in 2010. The listing included 82 contributing buildings , 46 contributing structures , and 56 contributing sites , as well as four non-contributing buildings, on 134 acres (54 ha).
By 1913, little was left of the town (which was now part of a privately owned ranch) except for a few buildings and four burial mounds of the Plummer gang. [10] The site of the ghost town was featured as a stop on a self-guided tour promoted in a guide book to the state of Montana written by the Federal Writers' Project in 1939. [9]
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Comet is a ghost town located approximately twenty miles (32 kilometers) south-southwest of Helena, Montana, United States. It is reached by following High Ore Road north from Interstate 15. The remains of the town cover about thirty-five acres and consist of an ore hopper, a large ore processing building, several other company buildings, and ...
Elkhorn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County, Montana, United States, in the Elkhorn Mountains of the southwestern part of the state. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 10. [3] The community is considered a ghost town, [4] [5] and two of its buildings are preserved as Elkhorn State Park. [6] [4]