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Bara-Hack Revolutionary-era mill hamlet

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: large cents.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1778-1890 farm and spinning-wheel mill hamlet

Hamlet settled in 1778 by the Randall and Higinbotham families, who fled Rhode Island during the British advance and built farms, a water-powered mill making spinning wheels and a shared burial ground. It was abandoned by 1890.View source →

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