Lost Places SocietyHometowns, landmarks and memories
Choose a place, search for a town or filter by state. Each story brings together what is known and what people still remember.
12 places to explore
See the surviving ruins, watch the film and help reconnect family photographs with the people who knew the park.
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A limestone tunnel, a water-powered mill and generations of Scout memories. Two state markers leave a measurement question open.
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Maps, archaeology and descendants preserve the story of a vanished Illinois town and the people who built it.
Explore the place →League nights, a rooftop sign and a basement daycare: help fill in the people and details behind this neighborhood bowling alley.
Explore the place →A memory of chocolate-dipped frozen custard is the first clue. Can a photograph, street name or menu identify the shop?
Explore the place →A Spring Street name and memories of “old races” start the search. Dates, photographs and the people are still missing.
Explore the place →Explore the vanished mill, old bridge and cemetery records. Documented history, memories and local legends stay clearly separated.
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Follow the winter river story and help identify the dates, faces and places in surviving family photographs.
Explore the place →Help recover the photographs, rides, workers and family memories of a vanished Louisville amusement park.
Explore the place →A drive-in survives in local memory. Ticket stubs, car-line photographs and remembered employees can help complete the file.
Explore the place →Open the Cincinnati ballpark file and help preserve the photographs, neighborhood details and memories that remain.
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Discover the industrial complex that changed Charlestown, and the family papers and worker memories still needed.
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