Field notes & histories

Category: <span>Ghost Towns</span>

Ghost Towns

Former mining communities whose scattered traces sit near the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.

Ghost Towns

Adobe ruins and a surviving desert outpost linked to nearby gold camps.

Ghost Towns

Ruins of banks, a train depot and commercial buildings near Death Valley.

Ghost Towns

A New River railroad town whose commercial district survives beside active tracks.

Ghost Towns

A short-lived port and trailhead transformed by the Klondike Gold Rush and transportation competition.

Ghost Towns

A former Lake Michigan lumber settlement where forest and dunes conceal most visible traces.

Ghost Towns

A preserved rural landscape connected to farming, fishing and Great Lakes settlement.

Ghost Towns

A former company coal town interpreted through structures, voices and the landscape of Mine 18.

Ghost Towns

A high-desert mining town where more than one hundred historic buildings survive.