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Tharpe (Iron Mountain) furnace settlement
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, furnace slag, blacksmith items, 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
1854 iron furnace to 1960s farm settlement
Named Iron Mountain after an 1854 furnace that ran on and off until the late 1860s, the place became Tharpe in 1886 and by 1915 had a store, school, church, gin, clinic, gristmill, sawmills and a tobacco factory. It declined in the Depression and became part of Land Between the Lakes.View source →
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