Ghost Towns in Kansas
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Coronado Heights
The original Swedish farming settlement around Coronado Heights is gone, but a WPA-built stone castle now crowns the hilltop. Legend says Coronado him...
Coronado
Coronado and Leoti fought a bitter battle to become Wichita County seat. When Leoti won, Coronado's fate was sealed. The railroad favored the winner, ...
Diamond Springs
Diamond Springs was the last reliable water source on the Santa Fe Trail before the Great American Desert. Kit Carson, traders, and soldiers all stopp...
Elmira
Elmira was an early Kansas settlement in the Flint Hills that lost out when the railroad chose a different route. Like many Kansas ghost towns, it sim...
Faulkner
Faulkner was a railroad town on the Union Pacific line in western Kansas. Grain elevators, merchants, and farmers depended on the railroad. When truck...
Nicodemus
Nicodemus was founded by African Americans fleeing the post-Reconstruction South. It's now a National Historic Site, the only remaining all-Black town...
Nicodemus
Nicodemus is the only remaining town from the 'Exoduster' movement—freed slaves who fled the South after Reconstruction ended. At peak, 600 Black Amer...