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Ghost Towns of Delaware
Delaware's lost places are tidewater ones — landings, mill seats, and marsh towns on the bay that silting harbors and shifting trade left behind.
47 sites surveyed across Delaware. Full records are being verified and charted — the survey marks below are where they'll appear.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 47 vanished or historical sites in Delaware — 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.
Society Pro
See Delaware as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
124 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Delaware. 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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Delaware — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.