In 1876, a man named Ed Patrick arrived in Wyoming and found work as a driver on the stage line that ran from Cheyenne to Deadwood, South Dakota. He's also the founder of the forgotten ghost town of Patrick.
When you think about how long the area that we now call the State of Maine has been inhabited, it should not be a surprise that we have a few ghost towns.
You'll find over 300 ghost towns peppered across Colorado's landscape. The majority of these mostly-vacant towns rest high in the Rockies where miners built settlements in hopes to strike it rich.