Ghost Towns in Pennsylvania

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Pennsylvania's most famous oil-boom town located on a small road 2.3 miles east of SH 227 at a point 1.5 mile...

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The water-powered Blacklick/Wheatfield Iron Furnace was built in 1846, and was located in the Blacklick Creek...

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This 1850s Palitinate German socialistic colony was near Clermont, which is on SH 146 south of Smethport.

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Located in Bethel Township, Kelly Station was just down the river from Logansport, where my grandparents ...

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A major coal-burning iron furnace built in 1868. The furnace has been restored and houses a county-operated m...

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A Haitian/French town established in 1793 along the Susquehanna River, three miles east of SH 187 at a point ...

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An 1850s era coal mining town located on SH 940, nine miles east-northeast of Hazelton. This site is currentl...

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Part of the Bradford area oil boom in the late 1800s. It is shown on the AAA map on SH 346, three miles east ...

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There are several hundred old forts built in the 1700s to protect the incoming white settlers from the Native...

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From 1905-1930, this was a busy logging town and through the 1930s, a Civilian Conservation Corps camp. It is...

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Two miles north of Clarksburg, which is on SR 286, about a dozen miles southwest of Indiana. This coal-mining...

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A former oil-boom town in Oil Creek State Park, northeast of Oil City. Exact location not determined.

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A former lumbering center, just west of SH 46, about 12 miles south-southeast of Smethport.

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This once-booming lumber center is located on the north bank of the Susquehanna River a couple miles south of...

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Entire town and some neighboring towns fled after underground fire began to heat up town. Highway has sin...

Pithole City