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New Fork Lander cut-off trading post
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Trade beads
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: trade goods, cartridge cases, buttons, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (CC BY 4.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1888-1918 Oregon Trail cut-off store and settlement
One of the first settlements in the upper Green River valley, begun in 1888 by Danish immigrants as a store on the Lander cut-off of the Oregon Trail and trading heavily with Bannock and Shoshoni people. Deaths in the founder's family in 1915 and the abandonment of the cut-off ended it, and mail service stopped in 1918.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
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