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Apex railroad lumber camp

Ghost town Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes, wheat cents, tin cans, household items.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

late 1920s-1936 lumber company town

A Saginaw and Manistee Lumber Company town on a railroad wye on the Grand Canyon Railway line, with about 14 houses, a commissary and a boxcar schoolhouse that was one of Arizona's few integrated schools. Logging ended and the town was disbanded in May 1936.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

active railroad, remote

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