Times Beach
Ghost town · United States
- Abandoned
- 1985
- Founded
- 1925
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 38.509, -90.603
Why it was abandoned
☢️ Disaster
Detected automatically from the text: Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.
History
Times Beach is a ghost town in St. Louis County, Missouri, United States, 17 miles (27 km) southwest of St. Louis and 2 miles (3 km) east of Eureka. Once home to more than two thousand people, the town was completely evacuated in early 1983 due to TCDD contamination, formerly the largest civilian exposure to the compound in the history of the United States.