Ghost Town Trails

State atlas · filed under VT

Ghost Towns of Vermont

Vermont's abandonments are pastoral: hillside farm districts and their villages emptied by merino collapse and western migration, plus quarry and logging settlements the forest has swallowed whole.

177 sites surveyed across Vermont — 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 177 vanished or historical sites in Vermont — 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 Vermont — each with its own record page, verified and expanded over time.