Here are a few of
GHOST TOWN
Favorite Ghost Town websites
For ghost
town chasing, treasure hunting (TH'ing), prospecting,
genealogy, and searching for old towns your ancestors lived in, as well as lots
of other interesting links, these sites are well worth visiting...There are
literally thousands of related websites out there, and this list is not
intended to be all inclusive. These are
just a few of the sites I find interesting.
I hope you do too. Happy web
surfing!
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General Sites
This website features
lots of information and history on the desert regions of the
Features Over 1700 Photos from 180 ghost towns and
historic sites in the
general links to other GT sites. Focus on AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR and
UT.
An excellent general ghost
town site with photos, links and history.
Ripley’s Ghost Town Adventures
A fun, folksy site that
takes you on many interesting ghost town adventures.
Good site featuring GTs
in CA and NV.
Also visit GHOST
TOWN
the appropriate state page.
AZ
CA
Includes a number of Death Valley and
Many links to other
Pioneer has links to a
number of gold mining districts in
For a good historical
perspective on one of
CO
IA
Even the Midwestern states have many ghost towns. This page is an example of what can be found.
This site is the prime site for anyone interested in
MI
A listing of the ghost towns in Grand
Traverse Co.,
MT
Bureau of Land Management
This BLM website lists various
NV
Includes a number of Death Valley and
Cal-Neva.com
For a good historical
perspective on one of
WA
Boom Towns & Relic Hunters of NE
Washington
This
site is a fantastic resource for ghost town chasers interested in the ghost
towns of the northeast
NOTE: Many individual site links are accessible
from the appropriate state pages.
NV
This museum features the history of the
Pueblo Indian village along the
NSW
– Hill End
Paintings
of old buildings in this 1870s Australian gold rush town are presented on this
website.
Mojave Desert & Death Valley in General
The
This website features
lots of information and history on the
Many links to other
Mojave Desert Heritage & Cultural Association
Based in Goffs Schoolhouse, this organization along with their
sister organization, The Friends of the
Highways and other
transportation corridors.
This organization is
seeking to preserve
culture such as road towns, motels, tourist
“traps”, billboards, gas stations, etc.
Before there were trains and cars there
were trails and footpaths across the country.
The
Route 66 – CA-IL
Route
66.com (On Dec
31, 2007 this site was “Temporarily Down.”
Begin your explorations of old US 66
here. The highway was more familiarly
called Route 66 or the
Ghost Town books
Carson Enterprises, Inc. (NEW URL, but I couldn’t get it to work on
Jan 08, 2005)
Carson Enterprises
carries over 750 treasure and ghost town-related titles. It is based in
One of the country’s best sources for Ghost Town and Treasure
Hunting books and maps.
Collectibles,
and misc books of interest to ghost towners
A connoisseur’s guide to
Tokens, medals, buttons, badges, ribbons, World's Fair, political,
Masonic/fraternal, Indian peace medals and slave tags. If you collect this type of exonumia, this a
great site for you. Rich Hartzog also sells hundreds of books to help you identify
your finds. (Also listed under Treasure
Hunting-General sites)
Featuring ghost towns, travel, &
treasure hunting
Western & Eastern
Treasures Magazine
“World’s Leading How-to
Magazine for Metal Detectorists Since 1966”
Focus of W & E T is
hands-on treasure hunting for the active metal detectorist. It is also the home to my long-running (since
Apr 1984) “Ghost Town USA” monthly column about exploring
This monthly magazine is
for those who love
International
California Mining Journal
Formerly known as the California
Mining Journal, this magazine’s focus is on current mining. It does contain a lot of historical
information on mines and ghost towns.
Published since the
mid-1960s, Lost Treasure calls itself “the Treasure Hunter’s Magazine
of Choice.” LT is aimed at the active
metal detectorist.
For anything from
historical ghost town information through current casino show listings,
everything related to the
“The Newspaper that
Roams” was a quarterly (more-or-less) folksy travel newspaper chronicling the
travels of its editor. For visiting the
map dots and unknown places in the West, this one couldn’t be beat. No longer published.,
but still had an active website as of Dec 31, 2007.
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INDEX TO OTHER LINK PAGES
Links
to various websites and pages are listed in the following categories…
·
General Ghost Town sites
·
Individual States/Provinces
·
Individual Sites
·
History/Travel
·
General Sites
·
Specific Interest Sites
·
Treasure Hunting Equipment
Manufacturers/Distributors
·
General Treasure Hunting
Clubs/Organizations
·
Specific Interest Clubs/Organizations
·
Places to find treasure
·
Government information sources
·
Book publishers/sellers
·
Periodicals
·
Clubs for License Plate Collectors
·
On-Line Collector Buy/Trade & Sell
Forums
·
A few other misc. websites of interest to
license plate collectors
·
General
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