List of Ghost Towns in Pennsylvania
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This is a list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania.
- Alvira
- AzilumFrench AzilumFrench Azilum, located in Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was a planned settlement for refugees fleeing the French Revolution. Several influential Philadelphians, including Stephen Girard, Robert Morris and John Nicholson, Pennsylvania's comptroller general, were sympathetic to the exiles, and also...
- BarclayBarclay, PennsylvaniaThe ghost town of Barclay, in Franklin Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was a coal mining town. Coal was transported down the mountain by an incline plane rail system. The original location of the town was later obliterated by strip mining operations...
- Blackwood
- ByrnesvilleByrnesville, PennsylvaniaByrnesville was a town located in Conyngham Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was located about halfway between Centralia and Ashland. A map with GPS coordinates can be seen . In 1985, the population of Byrnesville was approximately 75.Byrnesville was founded in 1856. Most...
- Celestia
- CentraliaCentralia, PennsylvaniaCentralia is a borough and ghost town in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005, 9 in 2007, and 10 in 2010, as a result of a mine fire burning beneath the borough since 1962...
- Corydon
- EckleyEckley Miners' VillageEckley Miners' Village in eastern Pennsylvania is an anthracite coal mining patch town located near Hazleton, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Since 1970, Eckley has been owned and operated as a museum by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.-Early years:Before the...
- Frick's LockFrick's Lock, PennsylvaniaFricks Locks Historic District or more simply Frick's Lock is an abandoned village, along the also abandoned Schuylkill Canal, in the northeast portion of East Coventry Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. This 18th century village outlasted the canal, being abandoned in the late 20th century...
- Gold Mine
- InglebyIngleby, PennsylvaniaIngleby is a ghost town located in Haines Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, United States. Above Coburn and surrounded by mountains, Ingleby was once a flag station on the Lewisburg and Tyrone Railroad. Lumber and lumber products were carried out of the mountains and railroad passenger...
- Kinzua (see also Kinzua CreekKinzua CreekKinzua Creek is a tributary of the Allegheny River in McKean County, Pennsylvania in the United States.The upper reaches of the creek pass through Kinzua Bridge State Park, where the creek was spanned by the Kinzua Viaduct until a tornado destroyed the viaduct in 2003.Kinzua Creek joins the...
) - LaquinLaquin, PennsylvaniaLaquin, in Franklin Township, Bradford County, Pennsylvania, was founded about 1902 as a lumber town, . The death of the town was from economics. When the forests played out and the mills could no longer be fed, the industry left and the people soon followed...
- LivermoreLivermore, PennsylvaniaLivermore, Pennsylvania is an abandoned town that was located on the Conemaugh River between Blairsville and Saltsburg in Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania...
- MastenMasten, PennsylvaniaMasten is a ghost town in Cascade and McNett Townships in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania, United States. It was a lumber mill company town from 1905 to 1930, served as the site of a Civilian Conservation Corps camp from 1933 to 1940, and the last family left it in 1941...
- Nebraska, Forest County, Pennsylvania
- PealePeale, PennsylvaniaPeale, Pennsylvania is a ghost town located in Cooper Township, Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1883 and was named after S.R. Peale of Lock Haven....
- Pithole
- Quaker Bridge
- Rausch GapRausch Gap, PennsylvaniaThe ghost town of Rausch Gap was the largest of several coal mining towns in St. Anthony's Wilderness that appeared, flourished, and died during the period between 1830 and 1910...
- Red Hot
- ScotiaScotia, PennsylvaniaScotia was a village in Patton Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, at . Although the community was called Scotia, the name of the local post office was Benore ....
- Sligo (Harrison TownshipHarrison Township, Allegheny County, PennsylvaniaHarrison Township is a township in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,461 at the 2010 census. Pennsylvania Route 28 passes through Harrison Township connecting Kittanning to the northeast and Pittsburgh to the southwest. Allegheny Technologies has extensive steel...
in Allegheny County) - Somerfield
- Stringtown
- TartownTartown, PennsylvaniaTartown, formerly an unincorporated community, is a now extinct community in Adams County, Pennsylvania, United States. The remains of Tartown are located in the Michaux State Forest in Hamiltonban Township.-References:...
- WehrumWehrum, PennsylvaniaWehrum is an abandoned coal mining company town in Buffington Township, Indiana County, Pennsylvania that thrived for a time during the early 20th Century. The mine upon which it was entirely dependent closed in 1929, and the last known inhabitants left in 1934...
- Whiskey Run
- Yellow SpringsYellow Springs, PennsylvaniaYellow Springs is a historic village and ghost town in West Pikeland Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States, between Phoenixville and Downingtown. The community includes historic churches, established in the 1770s by German Reformed and Lutheran members. The village is located on a...
See also
- Kinzua DamKinzua DamThe Kinzua Dam, in the Allegheny National Forest in Warren County, Pennsylvania, is one of the largest dams in the United States east of the Mississippi River....
- List of cities in Pennsylvania
- List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania
- PennsylvaniaPennsylvaniaThe Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a U.S. state that is located in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The state borders Delaware and Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, New York and Ontario, Canada, to the north, and New Jersey to...