Charleston
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- 0
- Coordinates
- 31.636, -110.173
Why it was abandoned
⚒️ Mines & quarries
Detected automatically from the text: Located on the west bank of the San Pedro River, Charleston's economy was based on milling silver ore mined from nearby Tombstone in the community of Millville, located directly across the river.
History
Charleston is a ghost town in Cochise County in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Arizona. It was occupied from the late-1870s through the late-1880s, and was located in what was then known as the Arizona Territory. Located on the west bank of the San Pedro River, Charleston's economy was based on milling silver ore mined from nearby Tombstone in the community of Millville, located directly across the river.