Ghost Town

LeRoy a Logan County Ghost Town

All that remain today of the small town of LeRoy are a limestone marker commemorating the original LeRoy Evangelical Church, the remnants of an old stone well, and some scattered rocks
The LeRoy schoolhouse, a wooden structure, stands in a field across the road to the west. Glenis Sonnenberg Schmidt, who grew up just south of the town, said her father had attended the school and told how it had no drinking water to the school from wells in the town.
The LeRoy Cemetery, which is still maintained, is one mile north of the church marker. A newer, larger church is located one mile south of the marker. It is the third LeRoy Evangelical Church, as a previous one built on the new site burned down in 1949 and was rebuilt. The present church is now affiliated with the United Methodists.
All the LeRoy structures are along Logan County Road 71, with the marker located at the intersection with CR 16. This is 10 miles south and four miles west of Fleming.
Information provided by the Logan County Historical Society states that LeRoy was surveyed by W.L. Hays, platted Feb. 13, 1889, and filed the next day. Wi9thin a year, the town had two grocery stores a hardware store, a blacksmith shop, a broom factory and a post office. At that time, it was in one of the most densely populated farming areas of Logan County.
One can travel many miles in various directions and find no better farming country than here, according to the information from the Historical Society.
If you go:
The ghost town of LeRoy is located along Logan County Road 71, with the marker located at the intersection with CR 16. This is 10 miles south and four miles west of Fleming.
Remember, LeRoy is located on private land get permission before entering.