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Hardman wheat-country trade 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: Barber and Mercury dimes), horseshoes, stove and wagon parts, cartridge cases, bottles and jar lids.

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

1881-1920s farm trade center

Farm trade center whose post office opened in 1881; by 1902 it had three general stores, two hotels, a saloon, schools, a newspaper, a skating rink and a racetrack. It became a ghost town after the railroad reached Heppner in the 1920s; the post office ran intermittently until 1968.View source →

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