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This is an incomplete List of ghost towns in Wisconsin .
Ghost towns [ ]
Town name
County
Established
Disestablished
Latitude/Longitude
Remarks
Adams Center
Adams
43°54′58″N 89°47′50″W
Adamsville
Iowa
42°54′26″N 89°54′45″W
Anchorage
Buffalo
44°16′07″N 91°45′26″W
Apostle Islands [1]
Ashland and Bayfield
17th century
46°55′48″N 90°37′59″W
Army Lake
Walworth
42°48′24″N 88°22′31″W
Ashford
Richland
43°20′48″N 90°28′05″W
Attica [2]
Green
42°46′12″N 89°28′50″W
Now part of the town of Brooklyn .
Aurora
Kenosha
1830s
Site of one of the area's earliest post offices; now part of the city of Kenosha .
Bagdad
Forest
45°39′22″N 88°42′13″W
[1] [2]
Lafayette
1836
1837
40°46'7"N 90°22'49"W
First Wisconsin territorial capital; abandoned after one session. Located about three miles NW of the present town of Belmont.
[3]
Kenosha
a.k.a. Nixon Corner, a.k.a. Bristol Corner. Located "just up the road" from the present community of Bristol.
Bohri
Buffalo
44°08′42″N 91°36′10″W
Bissell
Kenosha
Now part of the village of Bristol .
Bluff Siding [1] [4]
Buffalo
Calhoun
Waukesha
Ceresco
Fond du Lac
43°50′55″N 88°51′6″W
a.k.a. the Wisconsin Phalanx. A commune founded by followers of the communitarian socialist ideas of Charles Fourier.
Charter Oak Mills
Jackson
44°16′07″N 90°52′30″W
[2]
Vernon
Clay
Jackson
44°23′46″N 90°40′50″W
Clay Banks [5]
Door
Clarence
Green
42°35′26″N 89°23′54″W
Clason Prairie
Dodge
Cooksville [1] [4]
Rock
Coolidge
Price
45°48'42"N 90°24'29"W
Cortland
Trempealeau
44°12'50"N 91°34'04"W
Corwin
Richland
43°30′12″N 90°16′53″W
Cream [1] [4]
Buffalo
a.k.a. Eagle Creek
[4]
Dodge
Cypress [3]
Kenosha
a.k.a. Hoadley. There is some confusion as to whether Cypress was a later designator of Pikeville, or geographically distinct.
Delhi [6]
Winnebago
44°01'22"N 88°48'08"W
Dell Prairie
Adams
43°40'02"N 89°42'55"W
Dellwood [4]
Adams
De Noon
Waukesha and Racine
[2]
Adams
Dirty Hollow
Iowa
42°57′48″N 90°7′52″W
Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville.
Donaldson [4]
Vilas
Dodges Corners
Waukesha
42°51'32"N 88°14'30"W
Iowa
1844
ca. 1870
43°9′43″N 89°50′18″W
Prior to 1851 variously a.k.a. Heyworth, Reevesville, East Arena and Ghorstville. Originally established by the British Temperance and Emigration Society, Dover was slowly abandoned when it was bypassed by the railroad in favor of Mazomanie.
Dunville [1]
Dunn
[1]
Iron
Exeter [2]
Green
Falls City [4]
Eau Claire
Farmers Grove
Green
42°47'06"N 89°43'27"W
Fellows
Rock
42°44'53"N 89°12'03"W
Fordham
Adams
43°58'55"N 89°44'20"W
[1]
Crawford
Fort Howard [1]
Brown
[5]
Door
[2]
Dane
Good Hope
Milwaukee
Grand Chute
Outagamie
Granite City
Waupaca
44°38'02"N 88°59'28"W
Granite Quarry
Waupaca
44°25'02"N 89°04'04"W
[2]
Lafayette
Harmon
Washburn
46°04′04″N 91°40′06″W
Harrison
Calumet
44°08′03″N 88°17′30″W
Hatton
Waupaca
44°15′34″N 88°59′20″W
Helena [1]
Iowa
a.k.a. Old Helena, a.k.a. Helena Station
Henrietta
Richland
[5]
Door
Jefferson Prairie Settlement
Rock
42°29'37"N 88°51'48"W
Kaiser
Price
45°54'35"N 90°33'06"W
Keith
Forest
45°30′30″N 88°52′58″W
Kennedy
Price
45.9102815,-90.6662547
Kennedys Corners
Sheboygan
43°40′28″N 87°52′13″W
Klondike Corner [3]
Kenosha
42.590271 -88.134038
a.k.a. Klondike. Now part of Brighton .
Knowlton [1]
Marathon
Knox Mills
Price
45.5000037,-90.1302873
Kurth
Clark
44°34′27″N 90°29′48″W
Lake Emily
Portage
44°28′40″N 89°20′05″W
LaRue [2]
Sauk
Lawesburg
Outagamie
44°15′31.02″N 88°23′00.47″W
Lime Rock
Outagamie
44°30′03.52″N 88°21′03.77″W
Little Wolf
Waupaca
44°25′20″N 88°54′05″W
Manson
Oneida
Maple Works
Clark
Marble
Waupaca
44°33′45″N 88°52′15″W
Mayhews
Walworth
42°45′47″N 88°29′24″W
McGrew
Richland
43.3975039,-90.5013984
Mill Creek
Richland
43.3866706,-90.5527107
Millville [1]
Grant
Minersville
Iowa
42.963337 -90.133299
Today incorporated into the city of Dodgeville.
Moe Settlement
Columbia
43°35′55″N 89°41′58″W
Moscow [2]
Iowa
Muskego Settlement
Racine
Nasbro [4]
Dodge
Nelsonville
Eau Claire
44°39′15″N 91°34′12″W
[1]
La Crosse
New Cassel
Fond du Lac
Eventually absorbed into Campellsport.
New Chester
Adams
New City
Trempealeau
44.3488927,-91.4498658
New Diggings [2]
Lafayette
New Upsala
Waukesha
Nowell
Waupaca
44°29′22″N 88°47′53″W
Oak Grove
Eau Claire
44°40′21″N 91°36′19″W
Oakwood
Milwaukee
Oil City [2]
Monroe
Old Tyrone
Dunn
44°42′50″N 91°50′34″W
Perote
Menominee
45°05′28″N 88°48′46″W
Petersville
Waupaca
44°32′18″N 89°11′00″W
Pilot Knob
Adams
43.9875038,-89.6355651
Pikeville Corners
Kenosha
42.49613 -88.0332206
a.k.a. Pikeville. While Pikeville continues to exist as a geographical place name on modern maps, today it is incorporated into the village of Bristol . See also Cypress, above.
Pleasant Ridge [2]
Grant
c. 1850
1959
42°49′52″N 90°48′47″W
Settled by formerly enslaved African Americans in the 1850s, Pleasant Ridge was home to over 100 people, approximately half of whom were African Americans, through the early 20th century. The last resident died in 1959.[7]
[4] [8]
Dane
Porter's Mills
Eau Claire
44°46′15″N 91°34′01″W
Quincy
Adams
Ranney [4]
Kenosha
Raymond Center
Racine
Reeds Corners
Fond du Lac
Roche a Cri
Adams
44.0536149,-90.9539387
Rodney
Waushara
43°59′07″N 89°07′42″W
Rogneys
Jackson
44.193337 -91.060799
Root Creek
Milwaukee
Schultz [2]
Green
Sacramento [1]
Waushara
Savoy
Buffalo
44.523609 -92.058620
Schultz [2]
Green
[3]
Kenosha
a.k.a. Sand Ridge
Sinnipee [2]
Grant
42°34′31″N 90°39′25″W
Springbluff
Adams
43.9233371,-91.9189887
Springdale
Buffalo
44.523609 -92.058620
[1]
Crawford
St. Martin's
Milwaukee
Staadts
Marathon
Star Lake [1]
Vilas
Stettin
Marathon
Stewart [2]
Green
[1]
Grant
Stonehaven [9] [10]
Ozaukee
1901
1925
43°29'48"N 87°47'41"W
Former company town of the Lake Shore Stone Company. Residents moved when the company closed the nearby quarry in 1925.
[1]
Marinette
Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Trow
Clark
44°29′30″N 90°45′46″W
[2]
Rock
Valley
Vernon
43°64'17"N 90°54'18"W
Voree ("Garden of Peace") [1] [2]
Adams
Wakefield
Outagamie
44°15′56.33″N 88°32′13.52″W
Welch Point
Dunn
44°42′10″N 92°00′46″W
Wells [4]
Calumet , Manitowoc [4]
Willet
Green
42.723337 -89.811676
Williamsburg
Trempealeau
44.3138927,-91.4632998
[1]
Door
Destroyed in the great fire of 1871
Winooski
Sheboygan
43°42′25″N 87°59′2″W
[4]
Shawano [4]
Woodworth
Kenosha
42.558074, -88.001192
While Woodworth continues as a geographical designator on modern maps, it is today incorporated into the village of Bristol .
Worden
Clark
Wrightsville
Jackson
44.414448 -90.8536
[2]
Lafayette
Ziegler
Marathon
Notes and references [ ]
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t "Guide to the Ghost Towns of Wisconsin" . website . Rootsweb. August 7, 2010. Retrieved September 4, 2016 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s "Lost Towns of Southern Wisconsin" . Wisconsin Public Television. October 28, 2014. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
^ a b c d "Kenosha County WI Placenames" . website . Rootsweb. September 8, 2003. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "Ghost Towns -- Wisconsin" . website . Ghosttowns.com. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
^ a b c "Ghost Towns #2....The Ghostly Trio.... Foscoro, Clay Banks and Horns Pier" . Wisconsinology . April 4, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
^ "Ghost Towns #1....Delhi, Wisconsin" . Wisconsinology . March 1, 2008. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
^ "Pleasant Ridge: A Community of Black Farmers in Wisconsin" . Wisconsin Historical Society. Retrieved August 21, 2020 .
^ "Pokerville, the vanished village is Dane County's earliest town" . newspaper article . Wisconsin State Journal. December 6, 1925. Retrieved September 3, 2016 .
^ "Harrington Beach State Park: Master Plan and Environmental Analysis" (PDF) . Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
^ "Milwaukee ruins: Pabst Whitefish Resort, Commerce Street & Stonehaven" . OnMilwaukee.com. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .
Further reading [ ]
Stark, William F. (1977). Ghost Towns of Wisconsin . Sheboygan: Zimmermann Press. OCLC 3564408 .
External links [ ]
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