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Morris Ranch thoroughbred horse town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: horseshoes and racing plates, 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
1856-1960s thoroughbred ranch community
New York broker Francis Morris bought the land in 1856, and his son John A. Morris spent $500,000 turning it into a thoroughbred breeding community with a hotel, store, post office, school, cotton gin, flour mill and an adjoining racetrack with jockeys' quarters. Anti-gambling laws in New Jersey and New York sent racing and the ranch into decline, the land was subdivided, and the school closed in 1962.View source →
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