Ghost Towns in Washington
8 documented ghost towns
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Ewan
Ewan was a small agricultural service center in Washington's Palouse wheat country. As farms consolidated and transportation improved, small towns lik...
Lester
Lester was a railroad town at the west end of the Stampede Tunnel through the Cascades. When the tunnel was improved and no longer needed crews, Leste...
Liberty
Liberty is the oldest gold mining town in Washington State. Gold was discovered here in 1873, and by the 1880s the town had saloons, hotels, and a Chi...
Molson
Molson has three townsites (Old, New, and Old-Old) from competing town promoters. Now an open-air museum where visitors wander through abandoned build...
Molson
Molson is actually THREE ghost towns in one—Old Molson, New Molson, and Center Molson emerged from land disputes. The outdoor museum displays farm equ...
Monte Cristo
Monte Cristo was a silver boomtown in a remote Cascade valley. A railroad was built just to reach it, but silver prices and constant avalanches doomed...
Northport
Northport smelted lead and silver ore, much of it from British Columbia mines. The Le Roi smelter was one of the largest in the Northwest. When the sm...
Roslyn
Roslyn was a coal mining town for the Northern Pacific Railroad. It was one of Washington's most diverse towns—miners came from across Europe and Afri...