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List of ghost towns in Wisconsin

November 09, 2023

This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wisconsin.

Classification edit

Barren site edit

  • 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 edit

  • Only rubble left
  • Roofless building ruins
  • Buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless

Abandoned site edit

  • 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 edit

  • Building or houses still standing
  • Buildings and houses largely abandoned
  • few residents
  • many abandoned buildings
  • Small population

Historic community edit

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

Ghost towns edit

Town name   Other names County   Latitude/Longitude   Established   Disestablished   Current Status Remarks   
Adams Center Adams 43°54′58″N 89°47′50″W
Adamsville Iowa 42°54′26″N 89°54′45″W Birthplace of Alva Adams
Anchorage Buffalo 44°16′07″N 91°45′26″W Barren
Apostle Islands[1] Ashland and Bayfield 46°55′48″N 90°37′59″W 17th century
Army Lake Walworth 42°48′24″N 88°22′31″W
Ashford Richland 43°20′48″N 90°28′05″W
Attica[2] Green 42°46′12″N 89°28′50″W Now part of the town of Brooklyn.
Aurora Kenosha 1830s Barren Site of one of the area's earliest post offices; now part of the city of Kenosha.
Bagdad Forest 45°39′22″N 88°42′13″W
Belmont[1][2] Lafayette 40°46'7"N 90°22'49"W 1836 1837 First Wisconsin territorial capital; abandoned after one session. Located about three miles NW of the present town of Belmont.
Benson's Corner[3] Nixon Corner, Bristol Corner Kenosha Located "just up the road" from the present community of Bristol.
Bohri Buffalo 44°08′42″N 91°36′10″W
Bissell Kenosha Absorbed Now part of the village of Bristol.
Bluff Siding[1][4] Buffalo
Calhoun Waukesha
Ceresco the Wisconsin Phalanx Fond du Lac 43°50′55″N 88°51′6″W 1844 1858 A commune founded by followers of the communitarian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.
Charter Oak Mills Jackson 44°16′07″N 90°52′30″W
Cheyenne Valley[2] Vernon
Clay Jackson 44°23′46″N 90°40′50″W
Clay Banks[5] Door
Clarence Green 42°35′26″N 89°23′54″W
Clason Prairie Dodge
Cooksville[1][4] Rock
Coolidge Price 45°48'42"N 90°24'29"W
Cortland Trempealeau 44°12'50"N 91°34'04"W
Corwin Richland 43°30′12″N 90°16′53″W
Cream[1][4] Eagle Creek Buffalo
Crusher[4] Dodge
Cypress[3] Hoadley Kenosha There is some confusion as to whether Cypress was a later designator of Pikeville, or geographically distinct.
Delhi[6] Winnebago 44°01'22"N 88°48'08"W
Dell Prairie Adams 43°40'02"N 89°42'55"W
Dellwood[4] Adams
De Noon Waukesha and Racine
Dill[2] Adams
Dirty Hollow Iowa 42°57′48″N 90°7′52″W Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville.
Donaldson[4] Vilas
Dodges Corners Waukesha 42°51'32"N 88°14'30"W
Dover Known variously as Heyworth, Reevesville, East Arena, and Ghorstville prior to 1851 Iowa 43°9′43″N 89°50′18″W 1844 ca. 1870 Originally established by the British Temperance and Emigration Society, Dover was slowly abandoned when it was bypassed by the railroad in favor of Mazomanie.
Dunville[1] Dunn
Emerson[1] Iron
Exeter[2] Green
Falls City[4] Eau Claire
Farmers Grove Green 42°47'06"N 89°43'27"W
Fellows Rock 42°44'53"N 89°12'03"W
Fordham Adams 43°58'55"N 89°44'20"W
Fort Crawford[1] Crawford
Fort Howard[1] Brown
Foscoro[5] Door
Frenchtown[2] Dane
Good Hope Milwaukee
Grand Chute Outagamie
Granite City Waupaca 44°38'02"N 88°59'28"W
Granite Quarry Waupaca 44°25'02"N 89°04'04"W
Gratiot's Grove[2] Lafayette
Harmon Washburn 46°04′04″N 91°40′06″W
Harrison Calumet 44°08′03″N 88°17′30″W
Hatton Waupaca 44°15′34″N 88°59′20″W
Helena[1] Old Helena, Helena Station Iowa
Henrietta Richland
Horns Pier[5] Door
Jefferson Prairie Settlement Rock 42°29'37"N 88°51'48"W
Kaiser Price 45°54'35"N 90°33'06"W
Keith Forest 45°30′30″N 88°52′58″W
Kennedy Price 45.9102815,-90.6662547
Kennedys Corners Sheboygan 43°40′28″N 87°52′13″W
Klondike Corner[3] Klondike Kenosha 42.590271 -88.134038 Now part of Brighton.
Knowlton[1] Marathon
Knox Mills Price 45.5000037,-90.1302873
Kurth Clark 44°34′27″N 90°29′48″W
Lake Emily Portage 44°28′40″N 89°20′05″W
LaRue[2] Sauk
Lawesburg Outagamie 44°15′31.02″N 88°23′00.47″W
Lime Rock Outagamie 44°30′03.52″N 88°21′03.77″W
Little Wolf Waupaca 44°25′20″N 88°54′05″W
Manson Oneida
Maple Works Clark
Marble Waupaca 44°33′45″N 88°52′15″W
Mayhews Walworth 42°45′47″N 88°29′24″W
McGrew Richland 43.3975039,-90.5013984
Mill Creek Richland 43.3866706,-90.5527107
Millville[1] Grant
Minersville Iowa 42.963337 -90.133299 Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville.
Moe Settlement Columbia 43°35′55″N 89°41′58″W
Moscow[2] Iowa
Muskego Settlement Racine
Nasbro[4] Dodge
Nelsonville Eau Claire 44°39′15″N 91°34′12″W
Neshonoc[1] La Crosse
New Cassel Fond du Lac Eventually absorbed into Campellsport.
New Chester Adams
New City Trempealeau 44.3488927,-91.4498658
New Diggings[2] Lafayette
New Upsala Waukesha
Nowell Waupaca 44°29′22″N 88°47′53″W
Oak Grove Eau Claire 44°40′21″N 91°36′19″W
Oakwood Milwaukee
Oil City[2] Monroe
Old Tyrone Dunn 44°42′50″N 91°50′34″W
Perote Menominee 45°05′28″N 88°48′46″W
Petersville Waupaca 44°32′18″N 89°11′00″W
Pilot Knob Adams 43.9875038,-89.6355651
Pikeville Corners Pikeville Kenosha 42.49613 -88.0332206 While Pikeville continues to exist as a geographical place name on modern maps, today it is incorporated into the village of Bristol. See also Cypress, above.
Pleasant Ridge[2] Grant 42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W c. 1850 1959 Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s, Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people, approximately half of whom were African Americans, through the early 20th century. The last resident died in 1959.[7]
Pokerville[4][8] Dane
Porter's Mills Eau Claire 44°46′15″N 91°34′01″W
Quincy Adams
Ranney[4] Kenosha
Raymond Center Racine
Reeds Corners Fond du Lac
Roche a Cri Adams 44.0536149,-90.9539387
Rodney Waushara 43°59′07″N 89°07′42″W
Rogneys Jackson 44.193337 -91.060799
Root Creek Milwaukee
Schultz[2] Green
Sacramento[1] Waushara
Savoy Buffalo 44.523609 -92.058620
Schultz[2] Green
Selma[3] Sand Ridge Kenosha
Sinnipee[2] Grant 42°34′31″N 90°39′25″W
Springbluff Adams 43.9233371,-91.9189887
Springdale Buffalo 44.523609 -92.058620
St. Feriole Island[1] Crawford
St. Martin's Milwaukee
Staadts Marathon
Star Lake[1] Vilas
Stettin Marathon
Stewart[2] Green
Stonefield[1] Grant
Stonehaven[9][10] Ozaukee 43°29'48"N 87°47'41"W 1901 1925 Former company town of the Lake Shore Stone Company. Residents moved when the company closed the nearby quarry in 1925.
Sugar Bush[1] Marinette Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Trow Clark 44°29′30″N 90°45′46″W
Turtleville[2] Rock
Valley Vernon 43°64'17"N 90°54'18"W
Voree ("Garden of Peace")[1][2] Adams
Wakefield Outagamie 44°15′56.33″N 88°32′13.52″W
Welch Point Dunn 44°42′10″N 92°00′46″W
Wells[4] Calumet, Manitowoc[4]
Willet Green 42.723337 -89.811676
Williamsburg Trempealeau 44.3138927,-91.4632998
Williamsonville[1] Door Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Winooski Sheboygan 43°42′25″N 87°59′2″W
Witcome[4] Shawano[4]
Woodworth Kenosha 42.558074, -88.001192 While Woodworth continues as a geographical designator on modern maps, it is today incorporated into the village of Bristol.
Worden Clark
Wrightsville Jackson 44.414448 -90.8536
Zarahemla[2] Lafayette
Ziegler Marathon

Notes and references edit

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin". website. Rootsweb. August 7, 2010. Retrieved September 4, 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin". Wisconsin Public Television. October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d "Kenosha County WI Placenames". website. Rootsweb. September 8, 2003. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Ghost Towns -- Wisconsin". website. Ghosttowns.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  5. ^ a b c "Ghost Towns #2....The Ghostly Trio.... Foscoro, Clay Banks and Horns Pier". Wisconsinology. April 4, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  6. ^ "Ghost Towns #1....Delhi, Wisconsin". Wisconsinology. March 1, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  7. ^ "Pleasant Ridge: A Community of Black Farmers in Wisconsin". Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 21, 2020.
  8. ^ "Pokerville, the vanished village is Dane County's earliest town". newspaper article. Wisconsin State Journal. December 6, 1925. Retrieved September 3, 2016.
  9. ^ "Harrington Beach State Park: Master Plan and Environmental Analysis" (PDF). Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved March 20, 2020.
  10. ^ "Milwaukee ruins: Pabst Whitefish Resort, Commerce Street & Stonehaven". OnMilwaukee.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020.

Further reading edit

  • Stark, William F. (1977). Ghost Towns of Wisconsin. Sheboygan: Zimmermann Press. OCLC 3564408.

External links edit

November 09, 2023
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This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wisconsin Contents 1 Classification 1 1 Barren site 1 2 Neglected site 1 3 Abandoned site 1 4 Semi abandoned site 1 5 Historic community 2 Ghost towns 3 Notes and references 4 Further reading 5 External linksClassification editBarren site edit 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 mostNeglected site edit Only rubble left Roofless building ruins Buildings or houses still standing but majority are rooflessAbandoned site edit 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 storeSemi abandoned site edit Building or houses still standing Buildings and houses largely abandoned few residents many abandoned buildings Small populationHistoric community edit Building or houses still standing Still a busy community Smaller than its boom years Population has decreased dramatically to one fifth or less Ghost towns editTown name Other names County Latitude Longitude Established Disestablished Current Status Remarks Adams Center Adams 43 54 58 N 89 47 50 WAdamsville Iowa 42 54 26 N 89 54 45 W Birthplace of Alva AdamsAnchorage Buffalo 44 16 07 N 91 45 26 W BarrenApostle Islands 1 Ashland and Bayfield 46 55 48 N 90 37 59 W 17th centuryArmy Lake Walworth 42 48 24 N 88 22 31 WAshford Richland 43 20 48 N 90 28 05 WAttica 2 Green 42 46 12 N 89 28 50 W Now part of the town of Brooklyn Aurora Kenosha 1830s Barren Site of one of the area s earliest post offices now part of the city of Kenosha Bagdad Forest 45 39 22 N 88 42 13 WBelmont 1 2 Lafayette 40 46 7 N 90 22 49 W 1836 1837 First Wisconsin territorial capital abandoned after one session Located about three miles NW of the present town of Belmont Benson s Corner 3 Nixon Corner Bristol Corner Kenosha Located just up the road from the present community of Bristol Bohri Buffalo 44 08 42 N 91 36 10 WBissell Kenosha Absorbed Now part of the village of Bristol Bluff Siding 1 4 BuffaloCalhoun WaukeshaCeresco the Wisconsin Phalanx Fond du Lac 43 50 55 N 88 51 6 W 1844 1858 A commune founded by followers of the communitarian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier Charter Oak Mills Jackson 44 16 07 N 90 52 30 WCheyenne Valley 2 VernonClay Jackson 44 23 46 N 90 40 50 WClay Banks 5 DoorClarence Green 42 35 26 N 89 23 54 WClason Prairie DodgeCooksville 1 4 RockCoolidge Price 45 48 42 N 90 24 29 WCortland Trempealeau 44 12 50 N 91 34 04 WCorwin Richland 43 30 12 N 90 16 53 WCream 1 4 Eagle Creek BuffaloCrusher 4 DodgeCypress 3 Hoadley Kenosha There is some confusion as to whether Cypress was a later designator of Pikeville or geographically distinct Delhi 6 Winnebago 44 01 22 N 88 48 08 WDell Prairie Adams 43 40 02 N 89 42 55 WDellwood 4 AdamsDe Noon Waukesha and RacineDill 2 AdamsDirty Hollow Iowa 42 57 48 N 90 7 52 W Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville Donaldson 4 VilasDodges Corners Waukesha 42 51 32 N 88 14 30 WDover Known variously as Heyworth Reevesville East Arena and Ghorstville prior to 1851 Iowa 43 9 43 N 89 50 18 W 1844 ca 1870 Originally established by the British Temperance and Emigration Society Dover was slowly abandoned when it was bypassed by the railroad in favor of Mazomanie Dunville 1 DunnEmerson 1 IronExeter 2 GreenFalls City 4 Eau ClaireFarmers Grove Green 42 47 06 N 89 43 27 WFellows Rock 42 44 53 N 89 12 03 WFordham Adams 43 58 55 N 89 44 20 WFort Crawford 1 CrawfordFort Howard 1 BrownFoscoro 5 DoorFrenchtown 2 DaneGood Hope MilwaukeeGrand Chute OutagamieGranite City Waupaca 44 38 02 N 88 59 28 WGranite Quarry Waupaca 44 25 02 N 89 04 04 WGratiot s Grove 2 LafayetteHarmon Washburn 46 04 04 N 91 40 06 WHarrison Calumet 44 08 03 N 88 17 30 WHatton Waupaca 44 15 34 N 88 59 20 WHelena 1 Old Helena Helena Station IowaHenrietta RichlandHorns Pier 5 DoorJefferson Prairie Settlement Rock 42 29 37 N 88 51 48 WKaiser Price 45 54 35 N 90 33 06 WKeith Forest 45 30 30 N 88 52 58 WKennedy Price 45 9102815 90 6662547Kennedys Corners Sheboygan 43 40 28 N 87 52 13 WKlondike Corner 3 Klondike Kenosha 42 590271 88 134038 Now part of Brighton Knowlton 1 MarathonKnox Mills Price 45 5000037 90 1302873Kurth Clark 44 34 27 N 90 29 48 WLake Emily Portage 44 28 40 N 89 20 05 WLaRue 2 SaukLawesburg Outagamie 44 15 31 02 N 88 23 00 47 WLime Rock Outagamie 44 30 03 52 N 88 21 03 77 WLittle Wolf Waupaca 44 25 20 N 88 54 05 WManson OneidaMaple Works ClarkMarble Waupaca 44 33 45 N 88 52 15 WMayhews Walworth 42 45 47 N 88 29 24 WMcGrew Richland 43 3975039 90 5013984Mill Creek Richland 43 3866706 90 5527107Millville 1 GrantMinersville Iowa 42 963337 90 133299 Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville Moe Settlement Columbia 43 35 55 N 89 41 58 WMoscow 2 IowaMuskego Settlement RacineNasbro 4 DodgeNelsonville Eau Claire 44 39 15 N 91 34 12 WNeshonoc 1 La CrosseNew Cassel Fond du Lac Eventually absorbed into Campellsport New Chester AdamsNew City Trempealeau 44 3488927 91 4498658New Diggings 2 LafayetteNew Upsala WaukeshaNowell Waupaca 44 29 22 N 88 47 53 WOak Grove Eau Claire 44 40 21 N 91 36 19 WOakwood MilwaukeeOil City 2 MonroeOld Tyrone Dunn 44 42 50 N 91 50 34 WPerote Menominee 45 05 28 N 88 48 46 WPetersville Waupaca 44 32 18 N 89 11 00 WPilot Knob Adams 43 9875038 89 6355651Pikeville Corners Pikeville Kenosha 42 49613 88 0332206 While Pikeville continues to exist as a geographical place name on modern maps today it is incorporated into the village of Bristol See also Cypress above Pleasant Ridge 2 Grant 42 49 52 N 90 48 47 W c 1850 1959 Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people approximately half of whom were African Americans through the early 20th century The last resident died in 1959 7 Pokerville 4 8 DanePorter s Mills Eau Claire 44 46 15 N 91 34 01 WQuincy AdamsRanney 4 KenoshaRaymond Center RacineReeds Corners Fond du LacRoche a Cri Adams 44 0536149 90 9539387Rodney Waushara 43 59 07 N 89 07 42 WRogneys Jackson 44 193337 91 060799Root Creek MilwaukeeSchultz 2 GreenSacramento 1 WausharaSavoy Buffalo 44 523609 92 058620Schultz 2 GreenSelma 3 Sand Ridge KenoshaSinnipee 2 Grant 42 34 31 N 90 39 25 WSpringbluff Adams 43 9233371 91 9189887Springdale Buffalo 44 523609 92 058620St Feriole Island 1 CrawfordSt Martin s MilwaukeeStaadts MarathonStar Lake 1 VilasStettin MarathonStewart 2 GreenStonefield 1 GrantStonehaven 9 10 Ozaukee 43 29 48 N 87 47 41 W 1901 1925 Former company town of the Lake Shore Stone Company Residents moved when the company closed the nearby quarry in 1925 Sugar Bush 1 Marinette Destroyed in the great fire of 1871Trow Clark 44 29 30 N 90 45 46 WTurtleville 2 RockValley Vernon 43 64 17 N 90 54 18 WVoree Garden of Peace 1 2 AdamsWakefield Outagamie 44 15 56 33 N 88 32 13 52 WWelch Point Dunn 44 42 10 N 92 00 46 WWells 4 Calumet Manitowoc 4 Willet Green 42 723337 89 811676Williamsburg Trempealeau 44 3138927 91 4632998Williamsonville 1 Door Destroyed in the great fire of 1871Winooski Sheboygan 43 42 25 N 87 59 2 WWitcome 4 Shawano 4 Woodworth Kenosha 42 558074 88 001192 While Woodworth continues as a geographical designator on modern maps it is today incorporated into the village of Bristol Worden ClarkWrightsville Jackson 44 414448 90 8536Zarahemla 2 LafayetteZiegler MarathonNotes and references edit a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin website Rootsweb August 7 2010 Retrieved September 4 2016 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin Wisconsin Public Television October 28 2014 Retrieved September 3 2016 a b c d Kenosha County WI Placenames website Rootsweb September 8 2003 Retrieved September 3 2016 a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Ghost Towns Wisconsin website Ghosttowns com Retrieved September 3 2016 a b c Ghost Towns 2 The Ghostly Trio Foscoro Clay Banks and Horns Pier Wisconsinology April 4 2008 Retrieved September 3 2016 Ghost Towns 1 Delhi Wisconsin Wisconsinology March 1 2008 Retrieved September 3 2016 Pleasant Ridge A Community of Black Farmers in Wisconsin Wisconsin Historical Society Retrieved August 21 2020 Pokerville the vanished village is Dane County s earliest town newspaper article Wisconsin State Journal December 6 1925 Retrieved September 3 2016 Harrington Beach State Park Master Plan and Environmental Analysis PDF Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Retrieved March 20 2020 Milwaukee ruins Pabst Whitefish Resort Commerce Street amp Stonehaven OnMilwaukee com Retrieved March 20 2020 Further reading editStark William F 1977 Ghost Towns of Wisconsin Sheboygan Zimmermann Press OCLC 3564408 External links editGhost Towns com Wisconsin A history of the origin of the place names connected with the Chicago amp North Western and Chicago St Paul Minneapolis amp Omaha railways http www wisconsinhistory org odd archives 001963 asp Wisconsin Historical Society Odd Wisconsin Archives Wisconsin Ghost Town http articles chicagotribune com 1988 05 12 news 8803160500 1 ghost towns lumber production sawmills Ghost Towns Haunt Wisconsin As Lumbering Ends Wisconsin Public Television Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin website Rootsweb August 7 2010 Retrieved September 4 2016 Kenosha Co WI Placenames website Rootsweb Retrieved September 4 2016 http rootsweb ancestry com witttp ghosttowns ghosttown htm Wisconsin Ghost Towns at Rootsweb Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title List of ghost towns in Wisconsin amp oldid 1167318647, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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