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Ghost towns with a file in Pennsylvania

The Pennsylvania files include 17 communities — towns, villages and districts filed under a single reputation. Some kept the name but not the people; others keep both, the reports repeated by residents who live inside them. The filing is geographic; the claims, as always, are reported rather than endorsed.

17 dossiers10 counties covered12% open to visitorsGardeau — deepest file
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Gardeau

Gardeau, Pennsylvania

Ghost town research record.

1 claim · 1 legend→
Ghost Town
Medium

Scotia

State College, Pennsylvania

Former iron-mining town with industrial remains and a reported shadow-figure legend.

1 claim→
Ghost Town
Low

Wistar

Keating vicinity, Pennsylvania

Ghost town research record.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Nelsonville

Keating vicinity, Pennsylvania

Ghost town research record.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Peale

Grassflat vicinity, Pennsylvania

Ghost town research record.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

McEntire

Ralston vicinity, Pennsylvania

Ghost town research record.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Wehrum

Wehrum, Pennsylvania

Former mining settlement on the Black Lick Valley rail corridor.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Claghorn

Claghorn, Pennsylvania

Former coal town with surviving bridge remains near Blacklick and Brush creeks.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Historic Pithole City

Pleasantville, Pennsylvania

Vanished oil boomtown interpreted through surviving street alignments and a museum.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Landrus

Landrus, Pennsylvania

Former coal settlement interpreted through mapped relics in Tioga State Forest.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Poe Mills

Coburn, Pennsylvania

Former lumber town now within Poe Paddy State Park.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Ricketts

Ricketts, Pennsylvania

Former lumber-company settlement straddling Sullivan and Wyoming counties.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Mountain Springs Ice-Harvesting Village

Pennsylvania

Abandoned settlement associated with commercial natural-ice harvesting.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Low

Alvira Village Site

Gregg Township, Pennsylvania

Village removed for a World War II explosives complex.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Laquin

Laquin, Pennsylvania

Former wood-products town and later conservation camp on Barclay Mountain.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Loleta Lumber-Town Site

Loleta, Pennsylvania

Former timber-company town now occupied by a national-forest recreation area.

1 fact→
Ghost Town
Medium

Livermore Former Borough

Derry Township, Pennsylvania

Former borough removed during development of the Conemaugh flood-control reservoir.

1 fact→

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