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Coke Oven Hollow foundry settlement
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Sea pottery
Coins and tokensAlso reported: foundry slag, large cents, buttons.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
1836 to early 1900s iron foundry, coal and clay settlement
Manufacturing settlement where the Sugar Creek Iron Foundry made ploughs, stoves and mill gearing by 1836, with a coal mine for coke, a potters' clay quarry and a flatboat builder shipping goods down Sugar Creek. Industry declined by the early 1900s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
creek banks
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