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Bruce railroad townsite
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1888-1936 railroad station town
Platted in 1888 as a 16-block town around an Illinois Central station, Bruce had a hotel, saloon, stores and a blacksmith in its first year. Most businesses moved to Hills after a rival railroad bypassed it in 1890; the post office lasted to 1936 and the last buildings came down in the early 1970s.View source →
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