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Mortimer railroad grain 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: Indian Head and Wheat cents, grain scale weights.
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
1883-1917 railroad grain shipping town
Mortimer was platted beside the Memphis, Kansas and Colorado Railroad in 1883 and by 1884 had a grain elevator, depot, freight house, post office, stores, drug store and blacksmith. Its heyday ran to the 1910s; the county vacated the townsite in 1917 and the line was later abandoned.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old railroad grade
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