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Berwind coal company town

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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: Barber and Mercury dimes, Indian Head and Wheat cents, miners' lamp parts, cartridge cases, 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

1888-1931 CF&I coal company town

Coal company town founded in 1888 and run by Colorado Fuel & Iron from 1892; it may have topped 1,000 people and saw fighting in the 1913-14 Coalfield War. The mine closed in 1928 and the post office in 1931.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unstable ruins, mine workings

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