State atlas · filed under ME
Ghost Towns of Maine
Maine's ghosts are working waterfronts and woods: granite-quarry islands, lime and ice towns, and lumber camps that emptied when their single industry sailed, plus hill farms surrendered to the returning forest.
428 sites surveyed across Maine — 2 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 428 vanished or historical sites in Maine — 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.
The full survey ledger
Every vanished town the federal archive records in Maine — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.