Ghost Town Trails

State atlas · filed under CT

Ghost Towns of Connecticut

New England's quiet abandonments run through Connecticut: hill farms emptied by westward migration and stony soil, mill villages left by moving industry, and valley towns drowned under reservoirs serving the cities.

314 sites surveyed across Connecticut — 1 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.

✕Charted — click for the recordSurveyed — records pending

Survey note

The federal place-name archive records 314 vanished or historical sites in Connecticut — ghost towns, mining camps, townsites, and railroad stops. We chart them a few at a time, as the records can be verified. Every mark on this map is a place that once had a name.

TownClassification
DudleytownLitchfield Co.Vanished Place
Dudleytown · USGS survey
Dudleytown · USGS survey

Society Pro

See Connecticut as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919

409 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Connecticut. Pro lays them over today's map with a swipe between then and now, and adds every mine feature, lost place and mineral site the federal record holds for the state.

1,292mine features
1,274mineral sites
263lost places
409survey sheets

The full survey ledger

Every vanished town the federal archive records in Connecticut — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.

AcquidaneckNortheastern Connecticut Co.AcropolisNaugatuck Valley Co.ArmoryvilleSouth Central Connecticut Co.Barber CornerCapitol Co.BenvenueLower Connecticut River Valley Co.BrewstervilleSouth Central Connecticut Co.ChapmanLower Connecticut River Valley Co.Cheshire StreetNaugatuck Valley Co.Crescent GroveCapitol Co.CupheagGreater Bridgeport Co.DorrvilleSoutheastern Connecticut Co.East Port ChesterWestern Connecticut Co.ElliotvilleNortheastern Connecticut Co.Emmons CityNorthwest Hills Co.FlandersSouth Central Connecticut Co.FoleyNorthwest Hills Co.Grassy HillLower Connecticut River Valley Co.Great PlainWestern Connecticut Co.HassunadchuauckCapitol Co.Hemingway TownSouth Central Connecticut Co.HighwoodSouth Central Connecticut Co.Hockanum ParkWestern Connecticut Co.JohnsonvilleLower Connecticut River Valley Co.JoycelandWestern Connecticut Co.LeffingwellSoutheastern Connecticut Co.LiberiaSouth Central Connecticut Co.Little DanburyGreater Bridgeport Co.Lord CornerLower Connecticut River Valley Co.MassomuckNortheastern Connecticut Co.MaushantuxetSoutheastern Connecticut Co.MillvilleWestern Connecticut Co.NatchaugNortheastern Connecticut Co.NaubucCapitol Co.New GuineaSouth Central Connecticut Co.NinevahLower Connecticut River Valley Co.Rocky HillCapitol Co.Selleck Four CornersWestern Connecticut Co.ShowtucketSoutheastern Connecticut Co.SlineyvilleSouth Central Connecticut Co.SpoonvilleCapitol Co.Spruce CornerLower Connecticut River Valley Co.SunnysideSoutheastern Connecticut Co.Thompson CornerSouth Central Connecticut Co.Waterman PointSoutheastern Connecticut Co.WestcottWestern Connecticut Co.WillisvilleWestern Connecticut Co.
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