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Riordan Santa Fe lumber mill town

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Indian Head and wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, logging tools, household items.

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

Why this spot

1897-1920s sawmill and railroad town

A sawmill town on the Santa Fe Railway west of Flagstaff, named in 1897, with a depot, bunkhouse, school, store and two mills by the 1910s. The McGonigle mill closed in 1924 and the post office in 1925.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

active railroad, wildfire country

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