Aladdin City
Easily one of the most interesting ghost towns on this list, Aladdin City a planned community was just one of the many that came to be during the 1920’s Florida land boom. The Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan was creating mail-order kit homes to compete with Sears and Roebuck. Through their industrial catalog they marketed their vision of a city of 10,000 people that would begin dawn to dusk construction around 1925.
With crowds gathered to see the supplies delivered to Ft. Lauderdale on January 14th, 1926, the company boasted that on their first day they sold nearly 900 homes. Unfortunately, with an embargo from railroad companies, the sinking of a ship full of supplies and a hurricane which killed 370 people, the prospects of living in Florida dwindled.