Is it legal to collect at Hamburg German river town taken for an ordnance plant?

Restricted. The federal government acquired the whole area in 1941 for the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works; treat it as public land where ARPA or agency rules apply and confirm current ownership before detecting.

What can you find at Hamburg German river town taken for an ordnance plant?

Indian Head and Wheat cents, Barber and Mercury coins, German religious medals, buttons, railroad hardware, bottles

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Hamburg German river town taken for an ordnance plant

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Nails and fittings

Also reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, German religious medals, 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

1830s-1941 German farm, river and railroad town

German immigrants settled Hamburg on the Missouri River in the 1830s, and after floods most of the town moved above the bluff, making an upper and lower Hamburg with a railroad stop and later a dance hall. In 1940 and 1941 the federal government bought out Hamburg, Howell and Toonerville for the Weldon Spring Ordnance Works, which made TNT and later processed uranium.View source →