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Denoon plank-road village

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Also reported: Large cents, bottles.

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).

Why this spot

1850s plank road village

Village founded in 1852 by James DeNoon Reymert on the Milwaukee to Rochester plank road at Lake Denoon, with about 100 people, a store, a hotel, a Lutheran church and several shops in 1853. A cholera epidemic in the 1850s emptied it.View source →

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