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Wasp Appalachian farm community

Ghost town Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, farm tools, still parts, bottles.

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).

Why this spot

late 1800s to 1930s Appalachian farm community

An agrarian community in the upper Wolf Creek valley that thrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Forest Service bought it in the 1930s to restore the logged watershed, and it was abandoned.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote rough roads

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