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Larissa college town in East Texas
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, slate pencils, lead balls.
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
1837-1880s frontier settlement and college town
Settlers arrived in 1837 and suffered the 1838 Killough Massacre; the later town of Larissa grew around Larissa College, chartered in 1856 with a three-story building, dormitories and an observatory, plus stores, a salt works and a church. The Civil War and Reconstruction emptied the college, which closed by 1870, and when railroads passed it by in 1882 the remaining residents moved to Mount Selman.View source →
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