Russian Settlement
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- 1914
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 41.717, -113.350
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: Неизвестно, какое название дали своей общине переселенцы из России, если таковое вообще имелось; его называют «городом-призраком без названия округа Бокс-Элдер».
History
Russian Settlement is a ghost town in the Park Valley area of Box Elder County, Utah, United States. It is not known what name, if any, the settlers from Russia gave to their community; it has been called "Box Elder County's ghost town with no name." The settlement, which lasted about 1914–1917, was formed by a group of Molokan Spiritual Christians from Russia of mixed faiths and ethnicities. The colony failed quickly because the company who sold them the land exaggerated its quality and never provided promised facilities to make the land livable. The most noticeable remnant of Russian Settlement is a cemetery with two graves.