Doveland, Wisconsin: Was it ever even real?

The story, or fact, of whether or not a long lost town in the state of Wisconsin was ever even real.

Doveland, Wisconsin. When I first heard the name of this town it sounded like a simple, quaint little town in the state of Wisconsin, but now I can’t tell if it was ever even real.

Doveland, Wisconsin, real or fake?

Sometimes there are towns spread throughout the U.S. that eventually turn into ghost towns, meaning that they were once inhabited and now they’re not.

One example of this is Parksville, NY, which I have driven through many times. While I wouldn’t go as far as calling it a ghost town (there are still some people and businesses there or around there trying to revive the area) the multiple empty and abandoned diners, churches, businesses, and lack of any type of food aside from a small gas station with pizza for sale, give it the pretty strong appearance of a ghost town.

Doveland doesn’t seem to be a ghost town- it seems as if it never even existed. There are no records of it ever existing and nobody who seems to be from there, know someone from there, and nobody that remembers ever being there.

321 Mysteries on YouTube did a deep dive and found some great information

According to 321 Mysteries, the first time it appeared there was ever any mention of Doveland, Wisconsin was in 2015 in a Tumblr post.

“Anyone ever heard about Doveland, Wisconsin?”

— pennsylvanian-patriot-deactivat

The post apparently continued on by describing Doveland, a small town in Wisconsin that diseappeared from existence in the late 1980s or early 1990s.

“Nobody today remembers Doveland. There is allegedly tourist memorabilia from the town that still exists- t-shirts, mugs, postcards, etc.- but the town is gone. It was also removed from maps and razed by the powers-that-be either to cover up what happened, or out of fear that it might happen again."