Well, shit. I have to neglect di4ent while I tend to other things. Sorry!

“Basically, a ghost town is any historical site that leaves evidence of a town’s previous glory. This could be in many forms — all businesses closed, municipal services at a minimum, rubble and old nails strewn about, ruins of former buildings, etc.” MORE ➲

“Once it was home for American Indians; later to early European settlers. But soon Swan Island in Maine’s picturesque Kennebec River — about 45 miles northeast of Portland — may be without any houses. (See map for a location.) Years of neglect brought about by limited state funding has caught up with many of the historic dwellings on the island, some of them dating back to the 1750s.” MORE ➲

“Kreamer Island was settled as a fishing and agricultural settlement in the 1800s. Access was very limited and most everything arrived by boat. There were several dwellings, a store, church, and a school. In fact one of the dwellings served as a home, post office, and general store.” MORE ➲

“Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself. The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.” MORE ➲

“I travel a lot and one of my favorite destinations leads North from Kiev, towards so called Chernobyl ‘dead zone’, which is 130kms from my home. Why my favorite? Because one can take long rides there on empty roads. The people there all left and nature is blooming. There are beautiful woods and lakes. In places where roads have not been travelled by trucks or army vehicles, they are in the same condition they were 20 years ago…” MORE ➲

“Great photographs and stories on ghost towns in Ontario and Alberta, Canada… This website is dedicated to all those forgotten communities which, whether due to lousy planning, impossible dreams or rotten luck, just didn’t make it.” MORE ➲

“Centralia is a borough in Columbia County, Pennsylvania, United States. Its population has dwindled from over 1,000 residents in 1981 to 12 in 2005 as a result of a 40-year-old mine fire burning beneath the borough. Centralia is now the least-populous municipality in Pennsylvania…” Also see this link. MORE ➲

Information about dozens of old mine sites and ghost towns in the northern California desert (and the Sierra region). MORE ➲

“Everyone’s definition for a Ghost Town is different… Basically it can be any town involved in mining or agricultural activity that went thru various cycles of boom and bust and/or towns that are important to the history of Colorado and the old west.” MORE ➲

“Ghosttowns.com: The best source of information on ghost towns in the American West. Ghost towns are listed by state and include biographies, pictures, and other detailed historical information.” MORE ➲