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Eagle Mountain is a ghost town in the California desert in Riverside County founded in 1948 by industrialist Henry J. Kaiser.The town is located at the entrance of the now-defunct Eagle Mountain iron mine, once owned by the Southern Pacific Railroad, then Kaiser Steel, and located on the southeastern corner of Joshua Tree National Park.
Vijayanagara was possibly the second-largest city in the world in 1500, with around 500,000 inhabitants. [25] It was captured and destroyed by Muslim armies in 1565, and has been abandoned ever since. Hampi is a World Heritage Site within this town. Lakhpat was once a bustling port town at the mouth of Kori creek of Kutch.
This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
Legend has it that The Vulture Mine in Arizona is one of the spookiest ghost towns in America. Established in 1863, this city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned ...
One legend says that in 1880, Bodie was California's second or third largest city, [17] but the U.S. Census of that year disproves this. [18] Over the years 1860–1941 Bodie's mines produced gold and silver valued at an estimated US$34 million [19] (in 1986 dollars, or $85 million in 2021). Bodie boomed from late 1877 through mid– to late ...
Oldest city hall in US. Samuel Chase House: West Newbury: MA 1715 Residential A rare brick house of the period. A story passed down in the Chase family says that bricks for the house were made on the family's farm and carried to the job site by Hannah Chase in her apron. Merion Friends Meeting House: Merion Station: PA 1715 Religious
First European settlement in the New World during the Age of Discovery. Abandoned by 1500. 1494: Concepción de la Vega: La Vega: Dominican Republic: Founded by Christopher Columbus in 1494 as a gold town, and abandoned by 1562 after an earthquake destroyed the settlement. 1498: Santo Domingo: Distrito Nacional: Dominican Republic Capital of ...