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Cement company town ruins
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Buttons and buckles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Barber and Mercury dimes, Indian Head and wheat cents, Buffalo nickels.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1902-1927 Portland cement company town
Company town of the Pacific Portland Cement Company, with quarries, kilns, its own railway, a store, school, churches and about 500 people. As the limestone ran out the plant declined and it was shut and auctioned off in 1927.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable concrete ruins, quarry pits
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