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Almy Bear River coal camp
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, miners' lamp 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).
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Why this spot
1869-1940s Union Pacific coal camp
Coal camp strung five miles along the Bear River that reached about 4,000 residents, many of them Chinese miners. Explosions in 1881, 1886 and 1895 killed over 110 men, and the state mine inspector closed the mines in the 1940s as too dangerous.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
collapsed mine workings, subsidence
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