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Dobytown Fort Kearny trail town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: large and Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, bullets, ox shoes.
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).
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Why this spot
1859-1871 overland trail and fort town
Dobytown, officially Kearney City, grew from 1859 as an adobe outfitting and vice town three miles west of Fort Kearny, serving soldiers, freighters and emigrants and hosting a Pony Express station. The railroad cut trail traffic after 1869 and the town died when the Army abandoned the fort in 1871.View source →
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