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West Virginia
Nuttallburg Ford-era coal town
Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: Wheat cents, Mercury dimes, company scrip, miners tags.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1870s-1958 coal mining town
A New River coal town named for John Nuttall, whose mine supplied the C&O; Henry Ford owned it for a time and built a large conveyor to the river before selling in 1928. Production stopped in 1958 and the post office had closed in 1955.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
river, old mine structures
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