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Falk redwood lumber-mill town
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Buttons and buckles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Barber and Mercury dimes, Indian Head and wheat cents.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1884-1937 redwood sawmill company town
Company town built around Noah Falk's Elk River Mill, housing about 400 people from immigrant lumberjack families with a cookhouse, dance hall, store, post office and school, and its own logging railroad. The Depression closed the mill in 1937, and the lumber company burned and demolished the last buildings in 1979.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
steep wet terrain
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