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Take a stroll through time and visit our ghost towns through vintage and contemporary photos, memories and stories contributed by descendants, residents, former residents, and information from fellow travelers.

Texas Gulf Coast Ghost Towns Travel Guide
TOWN	COUNTY	Description
China Grove 8-26-07	Brazoria	Former plantation
Coletoville 6-23-07	Victoria	On the Old Goliad Road
Copano 7-1-07	Refugio	A ghost town by the 1880s
Cox's Point 6-8-07	Calhoun	Marker on Hwy 35
Danevang	Wharton	A Danish ghost town
Deming's Bridge 2-24-09	Matagorda	Became Hawley, another ghost town
Glen	Chambers	Absorbed by Oak Island
Gulf Prairie	Brazoria	A church and a cemetery
Hawley 2-24-09	Matagorda	Shanghai Pierce Statue in Hawley Cemetery
Indianola	Calhoun	Texas' Queen of ghost towns
Juliff	Ft. Bend	AKA Diddy Wa Diddy
Kohrville	Harris	A small African-American community
Kopernic Shores	Cameron	First generation Polish colonia
La Fruta 11-19-06	San Patricio	Population 0
Lamar	Aransas	A chapel and a cemetery
Linnville	Calhoun	Population 0
Mackay	Wharton	Ghost town on the Interstate
Manhattan	Matagorda	A town that never was
Meansville 5-24-06	San Patricio	Nothing left but a cemetery
Newgulf 7-30-06	Wharton	Not shown on most maps
Nuecestown 2-11-09	Nueces	Ghost town with a street address
Podo	Matagorda	A Zulu in Matagorda County
Rowanville	Brazoria	Existed from1905 to 1911
Sabine	Jefferson	South of Sabine Pass Battleground State Park
Shanghai	Wharton	The town that never was
Tejon	Cameron	Not on the map
Texana 4-28-08	Jackson	One of Texas� oldest ghost towns
Velasco 8-8-07	Brazoria	Included in Freeport City Limits
White Point 10-5-09	San Patricio	Nothing left but a cemetery
More to come. Please check back.

See also
Central Texas Ghost Towns
East Texas Ghost Towns | South Texas Ghost Towns
Hill Country Ghost Towns | Gulf Coast Ghost Towns
West Texas Ghost Towns | Texas Panhandle Ghost Towns
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