Any books on ghost towns on the east coast or south east?

[neo]

I've noticed that about everything I've seen only covers old west ghost towns and I'm just wondering why only that region?

 

[Mackaydon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_the_United_States
Don.....

 

[ticndig]

Don't put much stock in that list when it comes to Va . none of those places are ghost towns . I happen to live in one of them.

 

[Mackaydon]

Ghost towns have been described as anywhere from nothing left to sparsely occupied, otherwise empty towns.
Don......

 

[malenkai]

"Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey" and "More Forgotten Towns of Southern New Jersey" by Henry Charlton Beck are both excellent books. Most of the towns are "nothing left" ghost towns, but you can still find where they were with the books and a bit of research, and find the fingerprints of the old towns. These are in the Pine Barrens region of South Jersey (yeah, I know the region has a politically correct name now, but it will always be the Pine Barrens to me). Spend a day wandering and looking for the old towns, it is alot of fun.

 

[neo]

I'm just generally curious why do most books only cover places out west?

 

[Carl-NC]

I'm just generally curious why do most books only cover places out west?

Because the east is so much more heavily populated, ghost towns are often swallowed up by urban sprawl. Out west, things are a bit more spread out and ghost towns survive more easily. Plus, there was a lot of boom/bust activity (mostly mining) in the west.

 

[SultansOfSwing]

Have you tried ghosttowns.com? Good stuff there.

 

[neo]

I'll look.