Is it legal to collect at Pantano Southern Pacific railroad town?

Restricted. The townsite is the Pantano Townsite Conservation Area within the Cienega Creek Natural Preserve, set up in 2004 to protect its cultural resources, so collecting needs the managing agency's approval.

What can you find at Pantano Southern Pacific railroad town?

Indian Head and wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, railroad spikes and hardware, horseshoes, cartridge cases, square nails, bottles

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Pantano Southern Pacific railroad town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittings

Old bottles

Also reported: Indian Head and wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, horseshoes, cartridge cases.

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

Why this spot

1880-1956 railroad town near a Butterfield station

A Southern Pacific town founded in 1880 near the 1858 Butterfield Cienega station, it peaked at about 500 people in 1922 with a bank, school and telegraph office. It declined in the Depression, the post office closed in 1952 and railroad operations ended by 1956.View source →