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Gay City (Factory Hollow) mill village

Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only
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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: 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).

Why this spot

1796-1879 religious settlement and mill village

Settlement founded in 1796 by Elijah Andrus and followers that grew to about 25 families, many named Gay, around a sawmill, a wool mill and later a paper mill. The wool trade died after the War of 1812 and successive mills burned, the last in 1879, ending the village.View source →

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