State atlas · filed under NH
Ghost Towns of New Hampshire
New Hampshire's ghosts are hill farms and mill hamlets the nineteenth century drained westward and downhill, plus logging camps and grand hotels the White Mountains have taken back.
213 sites surveyed across New Hampshire — 1 charted with full records so far, entered by year of settlement. The rest are awaiting verification.
Survey note
The federal place-name archive records 213 vanished or historical sites in New Hampshire — 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 New Hampshire as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
254 USGS survey sheets from those years cover New Hampshire. 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 New Hampshire — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.