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Bybee narrow-gauge rail stop
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, 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
1880s-1920s narrow-gauge railroad stop
Settlement laid out by David Bybee on what was probably the Fulton County Narrow Gauge Railroad, with a school, a store and a train stop. Service dropped to one train a day by 1913 and the track was later removed.View source →
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