Exploring The Forgotten Past: 10 Ghost Towns Of Texas

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Throughout Texas' long history, the Lone Star state has seen many cities, towns and communities come to life and unfortunately die off.  Many of these small towns and communities were created because of the westward expansion of the railroads.

Other towns popped up because of mining opportunities and of course the oil boom of the early 1900s.  The Texas landscape was dotted with little towns because everything was booming and the industry was sustaining life and families.  However, over time many of these towns' populations dwindled to nothing and all that remains are a few old buildings or the skeleton of what used to stand there proudly.

These former Texas boom towns are just a distant memory for most of us but they live on in the historical archives of the county they lived one thrived in. Abandoned and alone, these ghost towns are now being reclaimed by Mother Nature. You can visit them, but there's not much left to see or do, they're just a shell of what used to be.

12 East Texas Ghost Towns To Visit As A Day Trip

East Texas is no stranger to ghost towns, we have plenty scattered throughout the area. While these towns may be gone, the town name or community still lives on via street names and highways that run through East Texas.

A little more than a year ago, a video was uploaded to YouTube by Beyond Civilization (Xplore RC) that presents ten ghost towns that once were thriving towns in Texas and gives a bit of history behind each of them. Let's take a scroll through and see what the producers of this video think about these former Texas towns.

Check out the video for a more in-depth view of these ghost towns and to learn more about them.