List of ghost towns in Pennsylvania facts for kids

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Pennsylvania.

Many of the ghost towns in Pennsylvania are located in Western Pennsylvania, particularly in the Appalachian and Allegheny regions of the Rust Belt. During the late 19th century and early 20th century, the mountainous parts of Pennsylvania were home to a booming coal industry. Many of these towns also housed coking facilities for the coal mined nearby, many of which still have the remains of the abandoned coke ovens.

Classifications

The bridge at Arroyo

The famous graffiti highway in Centralia

Restored 19th century buildings at Eckley

Barren site

• Sites no longer in existence
• Sites that have been destroyed
• Covered with water
• Reverted to pasture
• May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most

Neglected site

• Only rubble left
• All buildings uninhabited
• Roofless building ruins
• Some buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless

Abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing
• Buildings and houses all abandoned
• No population, except caretaker
• Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store

Semi-abandoned site

• Building or houses still standing
• Buildings and houses largely abandoned
• Few residents
• Many abandoned buildings
• Small population

Historic community

• Building or houses still standing
• Still a busy community
• Smaller than its boom years
• Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less.

List of towns

See also

• Kinzua Dam
• Rust Belt
• Night in the Woods, a video game which takes place in the fictional semi-abandoned town of Possum Springs inspired by the creator's hometown in Pennsylvania
• Coal mining in the United States
• Pennsylvania
  • List of cities in Pennsylvania
  • List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania
  • List of counties in Pennsylvania