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Bankston Confederate textile mill town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, mill machinery fragments, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1848-1905 textile mill town
Home of Mississippi's first successful powered textile mill, founded in 1848, which made cloth and shoes for the Confederacy until Union troops burned the cotton, wool, flour and shoe works on December 30, 1864. A rebuilt factory also burned, and the post office closed in 1905.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
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