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Buck Snort gristmill community
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, half dimes, lead balls.
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
1841-1860s gristmill and church community
Buck Snort began in 1841 around Joe Willey's gristmill on Buck Snort Hill, with Baptist and Methodist churches and a post office named Newport from 1852 to 1859. The community apparently ended during the Civil War, and by 1868, when militia fought the Ku Klux Klan there, only Willey's cotton gin was left.View source →
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