Unlike the movie ghost towns of the Old West the ghost towns in Florida dont have tumbleweeds rolling on deserted dirt roads abandoned wooden saloons and lone drifters on horseback. Although the landscape may have dramatically changed many of these oncethriving communities declined due to widespread economic changes disastrous weather company closings or vital industries disappearing or moving elsewhere. In fact some of these socalled ghost towns have been absorbed by larger cities still inhabited by Floridians today.In Historic Photos of Florida Ghost Towns author Steve Rajtar takes readers decades back in Floridaampamp8217s history to discover these ghost towns through the lens of two hundred blackandwhite photographsin some cases the only remains of these forgotten towns.