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Bankersmith Hill Country rail station
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Buttons and buckles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, Buffalo nickels.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1913-1940s railroad station hamlet
Bankersmith began in 1913 as a station on the San Antonio, Fredericksburg and Northern Railway, named for the Fredericksburg banker who financed the line, and reached about 50 people in the 1920s with a small business district. The railroad abandoned the line in the early 1940s and the town emptied, though a few residents stayed into the 1960s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
road traffic, bats near the tunnel
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