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Harrisville paper mill company town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: large cents.
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).
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Why this spot
1760s sawmill, 1795 slitting mill, 1815-1914 paper mill town
Mill site on the Oswego River with a sawmill by 1760, an iron slitting mill for nail stock from 1795 and a paper plant from about 1815, which became the Harris family company town with a grist mill, post office, store and free tenant homes from 1855. A fire in 1914 destroyed the whole town.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable ruins, ticks
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