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Mortimer Ritter Lumber mill town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, CCC era items, bottles.
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
1904-1940 lumber and mill town
A Ritter Lumber Company town of about 800 people founded in 1904, with a company store, church, school, hotel and movie theater. A 1916 fire and flood ended it, a 1922 revival and a CCC camp followed, and a 1940 flood finished it.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
flash floods on Wilson Creek
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