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Wrights railroad station ghost town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Coins and tokens
Sea potteryAlso reported: Indian Head and wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, buttons, tools, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1879-1940 narrow-gauge railroad and fruit-shipping stop
A stop on the South Pacific Coast narrow-gauge line at the north portal of Wrights Tunnel, with a depot, hotel, store, post office, blacksmith and Chinese stores and wash houses. It shipped fruit and timber from the Santa Cruz Mountains and died when the railroad quit in 1940 and Highway 17 bypassed it.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
blocked rail tunnelSteep wooded terrain, poison oak
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