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Johnsontown vanished mountain hamlet
Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only
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
1750s-1930s shipbuilding timber and farm hamlet
Hamlet founded in the late 1700s by the Johnson brothers seeking shipbuilding timber, the largest settlement within what became the Palisades Interstate Park. The park commission demolished it with about a dozen other communities in the 1920s and 1930s.View source →
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