Ghost Towns of Perry County

Along our roads, buried in our fields, and hidden in the woods lie the remnants of once important villages of Perry County’s past. It is where our ancestors lived, loved, raised a family, earned a living, worshiped, and finally were laid to rest – places of great industrial enterprises, transportation centers, recreational areas or perhaps just an area where extended families built homes and farmed the land. It was where tens of thousands passed through Perry County on their way to their dreams of a better life or where thousands of young men restored the natural beauty of our mountains. Ghost Towns of Perry County is the story of some of these once important places that now lie forgotten but an important part of our great Perry Heritage.