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Washoe Anaconda company coal town

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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: Barber, miners' lamp and tool parts, 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

1907-1943 company coal town

Coal town built in 1907 by the Anaconda company's Washoe Coal Co. that shipped 1,200 tons a day to the Anaconda smelters and reached about 3,000 people. The 1943 Smith Mine disaster, Montana's worst, and the loss of the railroad finished it; the post office closed in 1959.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

occupied homes, old mine workings

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