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Georgia City Jasper County prairie town

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

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: Indian Head cents.

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

1868-1910s post-Civil War farm town

Georgia City was founded in 1868 and had 200 people by 1869 and a post office from 1870 to 1904. It fell to 50 people by 1883, had essentially vanished by 1912, and its streets were vacated back to farmland in 1930.View source →

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