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Shelldrake sawmill town on Whitefish Bay

Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
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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 and Wheat 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

1895-1920s sawmill and lumber port

Sawmill town at the mouth of the Shelldrake River, begun by the Penoyer brothers in 1895 with long docks, a tramway and a narrow-gauge logging railroad. Repeated fires and the end of lumbering emptied it by the 1920s.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote
Lake Superior shore

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