Sharples
Ghost town · Canada
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 51.478, -113.064
Why it was abandoned
📉 Economic decline
Detected automatically from the text: The community is located along the former track bed of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Carbon-Drumheller branch line.
History
Sharples is a ghost town in southern Alberta, Canada within the badlands region of Kneehill County. The community is located along the former track bed of the Canadian Pacific Railway, Carbon-Drumheller branch line. It was built in the 1920s when the CPR line was extended through the area.