List of ghost towns in Alabama Facts for Kids

This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Alabama, United States.

Classification
Ghost towns

Classification

Barren site

Sites no longer in existence
Sites that have been destroyed
Covered with water
Reverted to pasture
May have a few difficult to find foundations/footings at most

Neglected site

Only rubble left
All buildings uninhabited
Roofless building ruins
Some buildings or houses still standing, but majority are roofless

Abandoned site

Building or houses still standing
Buildings and houses all abandoned
No population, except caretaker
Site no longer in existence except for one or two buildings, for example old church, grocery store

Semi-abandoned site

Building or houses still standing
Buildings and houses largely abandoned
Few residents
Many abandoned buildings
Small population

Historic community

Building or houses still standing
Still a busy community
Smaller than its boom years
Population has decreased dramatically, to one fifth or less.

Ghost towns

Town name	Other name	County	Established	Disestablished	Current status	Remarks
Aigleville		Marengo	1818	1830s	Barren	Established by French Vine and Olive colonists
Arcola	Arcola Ferry	Hale	1820s	1850s	Historic	Established by French Vine and Olive colonists
Bainbridge	Bam Bridge, Bambridge	Colbert, Lauderdale	1819	1840s	Submerged	Under Wilson Lake
Barnesville		Marion			Historic
Battelle		DeKalb			Neglected
Beaver Mills	Beaver Meadow	Mobile			Neglected	Site of a uniform depot during Civil War
Bellefonte		Jackson	1821	1920s	Neglected	Former county seat of Jackson County
Blakeley		Baldwin	1813	1865	Neglected	Former county seat of Baldwin County
Blanche		Cherokee			Barren	Site at intersection of State Route 35 and State Route 273
Bluff City	Bluff, Monroe	Morgan	1818	1881
Bluffton		Cherokee	1888	1934	Barren	Former iron ore mining town
Boston		Franklin
Brownville		Tuscaloosa	1925	Approx. 1989	Abandoned / demolished	Former company town for W.P. Brown and Sons Lumber Co., some plots still visible near intersection of Tabernacle Road and Brownville Pike Road in Northwestern Tuscaloosa County
Cahaba		Dallas	1819	1865	Abandoned	First capital of Alabama, from 1820-1826
Cedric		Randolph				Four miles southwest of Roanoke
Centerdale		Morgan
Chandler Springs		Talladega	1832	1918	Abandoned	Nationally famous resort town, from 1832-1918
Choctaw Corner		Clarke			Barren	Area now part of Thomasville
Chulafinnee Placers		Cleburne	1835	1840s
Claiborne		Monroe	1816	1870s	Abandoned	One of the largest settlements in early Alabama
Clarkesville	Clarkeville	Clarke	1819	1860s	Barren	First county seat of Clarke County
Dumphries		Washington	1819	1839
Erie		Hale	1819	1855	Barren	Former county seat of Hale County
Failetown		Clarke				Site of the Bashi Skirmish a battle during the Creek War.
Finchburg	Finchburgh, Finchberg	Monroe				Amasa Coleman Lee, the father of Harper Lee did live in this town.
Fitzpatrick		Bullock			Historic
Fort Gaines		Mobile			Historic	Defensive fort on Mobile Bay. Now serves as a museum and tourist attraction on Dauphin Island.
Fort McClellan		Calhoun	1912	1999	Abandoned/historic	Former army base outside of Anniston
Fort Morgan		Baldwin				Defensive fort on Mobile Bay
Gantts Quarry		Talladega	1830	2000	Abandoned	Former mining town
Gold Log Mine		Talladega				Former gold mining camp
Houston		Winston			Historic	Former county seat of Winston County
Kaulton		Tuscaloosa	1912		Barren	Former Kaul Lumber Company company town and mill site; now part of Tuscaloosa
Kowaliga	Benson, Kowaliga Industrial Community	Elmore, later Tallapoosa	c. 1890	c. 1926	Barren and submerged	Former historically African-American community with a focus on industry, was partially submerged under Lake Martin after the creation of Martin Dam.
Louina		Randolph	1834	1905		At one time the largest town in Randolph County
Manasco		Walker
Massillon		Dallas
Minden		Calhoun
Montezuma	Covington Courthouse	Covington			Now a neighborhood of River Falls	First county seat of Covington County
Morgan Stream
Mountain Mills		Colbert	1872	1893	Barren	Former home of large cotton mill
Nottingham	Jones Camp Ground	Talladega	1880s	1895		Steel town
Odena	Shirtee Plantation, Odena Plantation, Oden's Mill	Talladega			Barren
Old Ramer		Montgomery	1850	1895
Pansey		Houston				The 28th Lieutenant Governor of Alabama, Lucy Baxley who served from 2003 to 2007 was born here.
Pikeville		Marion				First county seat of Marion County
Prairie Bluff	Prairie Blue, Dale, Daletown	Wilcox	1819	1870s	Submerged	Former Alabama River shipping port
Riverton	Point Smith 1846-1851, Chickasaw 1851-1890, Riverton 1890-1930s	Colbert	1846	1930s	Submerged	Former Tennessee River port town, now underwater due to the construction of the Pickwick Landing Dam. The only current remnant of Riverton is a cemetery located along the Rose Trail
Rockcastle	Davis Creek	Tuscaloosa
St. Stephens		Washington	1789		Historic	First territorial capital of Alabama
Stanton		Chilton
Tooktocaugee		Calhoun			Barren	Former Creek Indian village
Turkey Town		Cherokee	1770		Barren	Former Creek Indian village
Valhermoso Springs	Chunn Springs, Manning Springs, Valhermosa Springs, White Sulpher Springs	Morgan				Former health resort
Vienna		Pickens				Former Tombigbee River port.
Washington		Autauga	1817	1879	Barren/submerged	First county seat of Autauga County
Bell Fontaine	Bell Fountain	Baldwin	ca. 1760	1880s	Abandoned/replaced	Former stagecoach stop and settlement

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