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Red Bluff Arkansas River steamboat landing

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: Indian Head cents, 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).

Why this spot

1869-1880s steamboat landing village

Red Bluff was founded in 1869 as a steamboat landing on the Arkansas River and had 74 people in 1880. The village disappeared and only an abandoned cemetery is left.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

river banks

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