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Dragon Gilsonite rail terminus
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: Barber and Mercury dimes, Indian Head and wheat cents, mining tools, sheep shearing items, household items.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1888-1939 Gilsonite mining and railroad town
A Gilsonite mining camp from 1888 at the mouth of Dragon Canyon that boomed as the Uintah Railway's end of line from 1904, keeping the railroad shops and roundhouse after the line was extended in 1911. Mining stopped in 1938 and the railway shut in 1939, leaving 72 people that year.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
remote, flash floods
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