Ghost Towns
📉 Economic decline

Brownsville

Ghost town · United States

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
44.275, -103.694
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Why it was abandoned

📉 Economic decline

Detected automatically from the text: The town was originally a lumber camp, and it was named for contractor David Brown.

History

Brownsville, also known as Avalon, Esther's Place, and Anderson's Place, is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States. The town was originally a lumber camp, and it was named for contractor David Brown. It is the nearest community to John Hill Ranch-Keltomaki, which is listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.

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