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Ghost towns are called ghost towns because most of the time they are abandoned or else they are a ghost of there former self. Usually there is a direct reason as to why they are abandoned. Also ghost towns are usually considered haunted by their former inhabitants. Many of the buildings look ghostly anyway.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 10y agoTypically because the reason for their being there in the first place went away. The town may have been a mining town- and the material being mined ran out. No mine, no town. It may have been a change in transportation- town was a railroad stop- but railroad opened a new route, bypassing town.
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∙ 11y agoits a place where people lived there and then when the gold came all the people left and it was empty none there so thats what a ghost town is:)
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