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Iowa
Civil Bend Underground Railroad village
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, ceramic sherds.
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).
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Why this spot
1847-1850s abolitionist river-bottom settlement
Missouri River bottom village settled from 1847 by Oberlin-educated abolitionists, a noted Underground Railroad station and stop on the Lane Trail with a Congregational church by 1850. Repeated flooding drove settlers to found Tabor on higher ground in the mid-1850s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
flood-prone bottomland
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