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Coolidge railroad sawmill town

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: Indian Head 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).

Why this spot

1884-1891 pine sawmill and flag-station town

Sawmill town on the Wisconsin Central Railroad with two stores, a boarding house, a post office and a saw and planing mill that cut over 80 million board feet. It reached about 500 people and faded after the mill stopped in 1891.View source →

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