Findlay, Ohio: Ghost Town

We were pleased to find Ghost Town still open to the public, and still maintained by Mr. Galitza, who took over after his father passed away. He went out of his way to get the attractions ready for us -- we were the first visitors that day, and probably this year (He was a little delayed because of so much rain.).

It was similar to how I remembered it from my last visit in 1973, but with an added sitting area in the middle of the "town." There was music playing as well to help set the tone as we walked around : "Bonanza", and the themes from every Clint Eastwood Western... My children had a great time exploring the old country store, the jail, and Boot Hill. There is even a covered bridge that Mr. Galitza and his father built themselves. Lots of cool antiques, and great mannequins in some displays.

Ghost town replica containing around a dozen full size historically accurate buildings such as a general store, bank, post office, and sheriff station. Several buildings contain museum quality exhibits such as an Indian artifact collection and a collection of old funeral carriages. They also have an actual train locomotive, a few train cars and a caboose on display. Practically forgotten, but still beautifully maintained and still listed in the Ohio AAA guide.

On a Rand Mcnally Atlas it is listed in pink and the most north western part of Ohio (attractions in pink are parks, theme parks, etc I believe). In an effort to find something creepy we headed out from Pittsburgh, PA. It took about 10 hours and after initially missing the sign for the turn we finally arrived at the Ghost Town.

Only we discovered that it was a closed children's attraction, centered around old cowboy/train myths (with entirely kid-sized buildings). There were no trespassing signs posted all over the place. There is a small residential house about 50 feet from the fence that surrounds the Ghost Town, and although old polka music could be heard emitting from within no one answered our calls. It's not very big at all (in all it's about as big as a McDonald's and its parking lot) certainly not worthy of being shown on a road atlas. Just wanted to let you know, so you could warn all people from making the trek out there as they will be greatly disappointed.