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Q. Are there ghost towns in Hays County?

A. Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines a ghost town as “a once-flourishing town wholly or nearly deserted, usually as a result of the exhaustion of some natural resource.”

In the library’s Tula Townsend Wyatt collection is a paper written by Maude Walling titled “Ghost Towns in Hays County, Texas,” which lists 17 towns that no longer exist, or exist now under different names. These are “ghost towns.”