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Connecticut
Johnsonville twine mill village
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, bottles.
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
1832-1920s twine mill village, later tourist attraction
Mill hamlet on the Moodus and Salmon rivers that was the center of Connecticut twine making for fishnets, with the 1832 Neptune Mill and Emory Johnson's 1862 Triton Mill and worker tenements. The Triton Mill burned in 1924 and the Neptune Mill in 1972; a later tourist village closed in 1994 and fell into disrepair.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
derelict buildings, millpond
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