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Taft Milwaukee Road tunnel boomtown
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, 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).
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Why this spot
1906-1910 railroad construction camp
Construction boomtown for the Milwaukee Road's St. Paul Pass Tunnel, notorious for drinking, gambling and murder and once called the wickedest city in America. It burned in the Big Burn of August 1910 and was never rebuilt.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
interstate traffic, burned ground
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