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Haywardville rubber mill village
Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: large cents, rubber goods fragments.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1830s-1890s rubber and shoe mill village
Mill village on Spot Pond Brook where Nathaniel Hayward and Charles Goodyear worked on vulcanization and made rubber boots, coats, pails and spittoons. It declined as larger firms and steam power took over and nearby cities took its water rights, and the state bought it in 1894.View source →
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