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Marietta Teels Marsh borax town
Ghost town Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Old bottlesAlso reported: Seated Liberty and Trade dollars, Indian Head cents, cartridge cases.
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), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1877-1890s borax and salt town
Town built on F.M. Borax Smith's borax and salt works at Teels Marsh, with several hundred people, many of them Chinese workers, 13 saloons and stone and adobe buildings; its stage was robbed 30 times in 1880. Smith moved his borax operation to Death Valley in the 1890s and the town was largely abandoned by the early 1900s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable stone ruinsPrivate property, remote
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