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Jamaica Salt Creek rail stop
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat 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
1885-1920s railroad stop
Jamaica was founded in 1885 as a Union Pacific stop on the Salt Creek floodplain with a blacksmith, creamery, grain elevator and Baptist church. Repeated flooding and falling rail traffic left it mostly vacant by the 1920s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Salt Creek flooding, trail users
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