Ghost Towns in Wyoming
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Atlantic City
Atlantic City was Wyoming's first gold rush town, booming in 1868. About 37 people remain in this remote Wind River community....
Atlantic City
Atlantic City was South Pass City's sister town during the 1860s gold rush. Both sit on the Continental Divide. A few residents still live here, runni...
Buford
Buford bills itself as 'America's Smallest Town'—population 1. Founded as a Union Pacific railroad stop, it was sold at auction in 2012 for $900,000 t...
Carbon
Carbon was so important for Union Pacific coal that Wyoming named an entire county after it. But when the coal played out and the railroad found new s...
Kirwin
Kirwin was a remote gold mining town in the Absaroka Mountains. After a fatal avalanche killed three miners, the town declined rapidly. Amelia Earhart...
Piedmont
Piedmont was built to produce charcoal for railroad locomotives. Three massive stone beehive kilns turned timber into fuel. When railroads switched to...
South Pass City
South Pass City is the 'Birthplace of Women's Suffrage'—Wyoming granted women the vote in 1869, and Esther Hobart Morris became America's first woman ...