You’ll find Pittsburg’s ghost town ruins in southern Polk County, Florida, about five miles north of Avon Park. This early 20th-century phosphate mining community once thrived with worker housing, stores, and processing facilities along three converging railway lines. Today, the abandoned settlement features brick foundations, remnants of rail infrastructure, and old water tanks amid pine flatwoods and mixed hardwood forests. The site’s crumbling structures tell a deeper story of Florida’s phosphate mining heritage.
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11.1 Are There Any Surviving Photographs of Pittsburg During Its Active Mining Years?…