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Towns are evacuated several years in advance and turned into ghost towns. When the pit reaches the towns they are finally torn down. [citation needed] Bonnland, Gruorn, Lopau, Wollseifen and others are ghost towns created as part of the creation of military training areas. [citation needed]
This is a list of lists of ghost towns in the United States by state. List of ghost towns in Alabama; List of ghost towns in Alaska; List of ghost towns in Arizona;
Abandoned village in Russia The remains of a fieldstone church in Dangelsdorf Germany, from the 14th century Moggessa di Qua near Moggio Udinese/Italy Glanzenberg, a 13th-century town in Unterengstringen, Switzerland Villa Epecuén . An abandoned village is a village that has, for some reason, been deserted. In many countries, and throughout ...
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka.Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated early in 1983 due to TCDD (a type of dioxin) contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
One of Nevada's largest ghost towns, Rhyolite was once the third-largest city in the state. Formed during the Gold Rush in 1904, it grew to be a bustling town of more than 10,000 people with an ...
There are plenty of ghost towns to visit in Washington state. On the east side they are mostly leftover from mining and agricultural booms. Ghost towns sit abandoned across WA.
coal mining ghost town Huron: Westmoreland County: Salem Township: A coal mining ghost town. [57] Ingleby: Fowler Centre County: Haines Township: Instanter: Elk County: Submerged under the waters of East Branch Lake. [58] Johnetta: Armstrong County: Gilpin Township: a brick works & coal mining ghost town Joller: Huntingdon County: 1916 1979 ...
Rhyolite eventually won out before becoming a ghost town as well. Bullionville: Lincoln: 1870: 1882: Barren site: A reliable water supply supported milling in town until nearby Pioche built waterworks to supply water to Pioche mills. Afterward, Bullioniville was slowly abandoned. [3] Cactus Springs: Nye: 1910: 1935: Cactus Springs is a ghost ...