This abandoned graveyard is filled with the remains of more than 90,000 people. First opened in 1855, the cemetery is guarded by an imposing brownstone gatehouse. Since the last board member of the cemetery association died in 2011, this historic site has been slowly becoming more and more overgrown.
The graveyard is thought to date back to about 1770, though many of the 450 original headstones are missing. The elaborate wrought-iron gate and weathered headstones are both beautiful and slightly creepy.
In 1913, an explosion in the town's coal mine killed 263 men in one of the worst mining tragedies in U.S. history. A second explosion in the 1920s killed another 121 men, and the mine eventually closed. The mine's fortunes dwindled and eventually vanished altogether, leaving this abandoned cemetery to tell its story.
Later bought by Tasco Mining.