Explore / North America / North Carolina
North Carolina
Buffalo City logging and moonshine town
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, still 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).
.jpg){kind=link}
.jpg){kind=link}
,_late_19th_century_(CH_18352061).jpg){kind=link}
Why this spot
1870s-1950s logging company town
A Buffalo Timber Company town on Milltail Creek that grew to about 3,000 people, the largest community in Dare County, with a hotel, school, store and 100 miles of rail track, and wages paid in company aluminum money. Disease and lost work cut it to about 100 people, and it was abandoned when the sawmill closed in the early 1950s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
swamp, alligators, snakes, black bears
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.