The following is a google search for the definition of Ghost Town. Please note an 1870-1875 definition as it pertained to the culture of the time.
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| ghost town n. A once thriving town, especially a boomtown of the American West, that has been completely abandoned. |
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
ghost town
n
a deserted town, esp one in the western US that was formerly a boom town
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003
ghost′ town`
n.
a town permanently abandoned by its inhabitants, as because of a business decline or because a nearby mine has been worked out.
[1870–75]
Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.
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| Noun | 1. |  ghost town - a deserted settlement (especially in western United States)town - an urban area with a fixed boundary that is smaller than a city; "they drive through town on their way to work" western United States, West - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River |
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