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Eagle Mountain Kaiser iron-mine company town
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Wheat cents, Roosevelt dimes, toys, keys.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1948-1983 iron-mine company town
Kaiser Steel built this company town at its iron mine to feed the Fontana mill; it reached about 4,000 residents with 400 homes, schools, churches and a shopping center. The mine and mill closed in 1983 after Kaiser phased out the operation, and a later private prison in the old shopping center closed in 2003.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
open-pit mine edgesExtreme heat (120 F recorded), remote, abandoned buildings
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