Ghost town Hanton City in Smithfield, Rhode Island

i am in front of hunting city trail um i'm in the search for the lost gomes town in smithfield rhode island called hampton city it's been occupied during colonial times the last known occupant died i believe is in 18 late 1800s so it is very interesting place mystery surrounds it it's not in town register so i will try to uncover it get as much information and hopefully it will turn out to be interesting area for treasure hunters so let's go this is my second attempt to find that city as you can see it's just a small little trail of i will give you the directions later but as you can see it's just a small trail it's called hampton city trail there's two of them there uh it's right before strasino rocky hill road but i will give you the directions later on so let's go and see what this is all about
let's see what's on the left side here
so here we are in the ghost town in rhode island uh that most people don't know about and uh you know rumor has it that this colonial area era ghost town uh once existed and served quite a purpose there are different versions one says that most people here were run away slaves or people with certain afflictions but we do know that it contained a lot of good useful professions for that era such as shoemakers tanners uh and so forth so this town is called hampton city of course and it's known to locals as lost city to the locals i mean in smithfield so it was a small mostly farming town and it was uh isolated kind of from the main town of smithfield and certainly from the rest of rhode island the exact the dates of when the town started is not known but we know it's around 1776.
and we know that the town existed until right before 1900 the last resident i think was mr henton died in right before 1900.Show more

so it kind of disappeared after that it was in decline for for for a number of years already and i think it's due to the progress to the fact that their new roads were being built and it diverted the business away from them the main families that were the original families that basically created these communities this community were hunting shippies and paints so as you can see we're walking through there are uh many human activities uh there and we know that there are stone foundations uh i know there is a burial site somewhere uh we'll get to that as well hopefully we'll find it and we'll find some some sellers a very interesting time

this is getting interesting

i don't want to fall into some sort of old well

or a cellar be careful moving around here but that looks like

old

structures

interesting

looks like

it was a bunch of structures around close to each other

let's see what's

going on over there that is uh

a little bit more

looks like a up

and there's a hole

whoa

this is interesting

human activities from long time ago apparently this town was a thriving town full of professionals those days tanners uh shoemakers apparently and and other professions that were useful at that time it was driving and then apparently times got very harsh i don't know dude probably to the modern progress buildup of roads

i can see back further down one place after another completely taken over by nature what's this looks like a little

tiny house

huh that's interesting isn't that cool

right behind me

looks like some animal dig up a hole over there

so let's continue on that trail and i don't know exactly how long it is maybe 45 minutes or so walking distance but i will keep my eyes open when it structures any human activities to the right
i know they talk about this hampton city as a haunted city they hear noises people talking
uh so we'll see if i hear anything i'll let you know i venture to the side and i see almost everywhere human activity looks like there's a little puff going through the side let's continue
let's see where it will take us well this is there's almost no blush here because in the other places there's the brush is fairly thick it would be good idea to come here during the fall but as you see here it's fairly open area interesting this would be a such an awesome place for a treasure hunter even if you brought just a simple metal detector would be interesting
to search this area for some old artifacts this is definitely a little side puff glowing
let's see where it will take us i certainly don't want to get lost but on the other hand how can you get lost in rhode island you just walk the same direction for a while you will reach the end of the state soon enough but there's definitely human activities all around me nothing recent halfway obviously very interesting well there was a hill i just climbed i veered off the uh the little beacon path again because of the rocks i've noticed so let's take a closer look uh
i came to a fork left or right we'll take the right take the right one and we'll see where it will take us
i already see interesting things going on let's keep going again this time i went to the left of the park the trail and i see some clearing