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Midland gypsum company town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: Wheat cents, Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, Buffalo nickels, toys, cans.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1925-1966 gypsum mining company town
US Gypsum company town by the Little Maria Mountains with a wallboard plant, a narrow-gauge quarry railroad and about 1,000 people at its peak; its gypsum supplied fake snow for Hollywood. Operations wound down and ended in 1966, and most buildings were torn down.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old mine openings, heat, remote
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