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Whitewash Village Monomoy fishing settlement
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: large cents, ceramic sherds, 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
1710-1860 fishing and wrecking village
Fishing settlement on Monomoy Island that grew around the deep Powder Hole harbor to about 200 residents with a tavern inn and a school, drying cod, lobster and mackerel for Boston and New York. A hurricane around 1860 sanded up the harbor and the village was abandoned.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
tides, shifting sand, remote island
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