State atlas · filed under RI
Ghost Towns of Rhode Island
Rhode Island's lost villages are milltown and reservoir stories — the Scituate Reservoir alone displaced several — compact histories of a compact state.
151 sites surveyed across Rhode Island — 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 151 vanished or historical sites in Rhode Island — 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 Rhode Island as the surveyors drew it, 1879 to 1919
147 USGS survey sheets from those years cover Rhode Island. 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 Rhode Island — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.