Michigan Ghost Town Images

Welcome to our Michigan Ghost Town desktop wallpaper image page. Below you will find a brief description of several Ghost Towns located in Michigan, along with thumbnailed images. Click on any of the thumbnailed images to see a large  image from that Ghost Town, then right-click on the full-sized image and "save as desktop wallpaper." All rows of thumbnails with a after them have been added to the site recently.

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Emerson is located about one mile south from the mouth of the Tahquamenon River in the Upper Peninsula on Lake Superior. The village was founded by Kurt Emerson, a lumberman from the Saginaw Bay area. In the 1880's Emerson erected a sawmill on the small island a short distance from the mainland. In 1884 he sold the mill to the Chesbrough Lumber Company. Milling and lumbering operations ceased in 1912, at which time commercial fishing became the main business at Emerson. Fishing died out in the 70's and 80's, now all that is left are bricks, piers, quite a bit of lumber, and other assorted items.

The first two photos show the higher water levels of Lake Superior in 2006, and the drastically lower levels in 2007, where you could actually walk to the island without getting wet.

The last two photos show the outline of a small boat, and engine in the sand. These are likely remnants of the fishing industry, not from the logging era.

Fayette is located on the Garden Peninsula in the Upper Peninsula on Lake Michigan, founded around 1864 and built as an iron smelting town, it thrived until more efficient methods of iron smelting were developed in the 1880's. acquired by the DNR in 1959 and transformed into one of Michigan's most unique state parks, this make a very interesting park to visit.

Fiborn Quarry was a small town built at a limestone quarry northwest of St. Ignace in 1904, and was completely deserted by 1940. It makes an interesting and eerie place to visit with it's huge towering limestone walls.

Vermilion is located about 6 miles west of Whitefish Point on Lake Superior, what remains of this town is in a very remote part of the state. One of four lifesaving stations was built here in 1876 to serve the treacherous stretch of shoreline between the Soo and Munising, and a small town soon developed. The buildings and surrounding area is now maintained by Lake Superior State University.

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