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Pittsville prairie plantation village
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, Civil War bullets.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1840s-1940s planters' prairie village
Planters moved up from the flood-prone Brazos bottoms in the 1840s to found Pittsville, named for storekeepers A. R. and Amanda Pitts, and it was a commercial center of about 240 people by 1860, with Confederate units camping nearby. A new railroad to the south in 1888 and the founding of Fulshear drew it away, and the last residents left in 1947.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
road traffic, development
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