Genealogy Trails
 

Ghost Towns of Ohio  


(Under Construction)

Ai - Fulton County

Atwood - Small town in southern Summit county.

Atwood - Small town in Carroll County.

Baldwin - Paulding County

Beagle - Hancock County

Blowville - Clermont County

Blue Ball

Claylick, Licking County, Ohio Located at the intersection of Claylick and the Licking River, this was one of the largest towns to be destroyed and caused primarily by 2 floods 1 in 1919 and 1 in 1959. After the 2nd flood the Dillan Dam floodplain project destroyed this town.

Elk Lick (Destructed and flooded after construction of William H. Harsha Lake)

Boston, Ohio (aka "Helltown")

Hibernia

Ingham

Knockemstiff

Moonville

New Burlington

New Hampton

Newville

Oreton

Providence

Revenge

Rumley

Rural Hill (Once thriving, died after local slaughter house, the main employer, closed its doors)

San Toy

Tadmor

Sprucevale - (Canal town abandoned in 1870 with the closing of the canal, whose locks are still present)

Utopia

Winchester

Wonderland


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