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Silkville utopian silk colony
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Indian Head cents.
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
1870-1892 Fourierist silk colony
Frenchman Ernest de Boissiere founded Silkville in 1870 as a cooperative colony raising silkworms, with a 60-room manor house, a stone cocoonery, school and thousands of mulberry trees, and its silk won praise at the 1876 Centennial Exposition. Competition from cheaper Asian silk and departing members ended the colony, and Boissiere returned to France in 1892.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
standing ruins, highway traffic
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