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Old Roach tie-hack logging camp

Ghost town Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1920s-1930s Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes and Wheat cents, broad axe and saw parts.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1923-1938 company tie-hacking town

Otto Lumber Company town where tie hacks cut railroad ties and floated them down to the Big Laramie River, with homes, a post office, store and school. It was dismantled in the 1930s.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote, high elevation

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