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Oreton coal and iron company town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, furnace slag, mining tools.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1850s-1950 coal mining and iron furnace town
New York Coal Company mining town with up to 70 miners' houses, a church, coal and iron ore mines and the Eagle Furnace operating in the later 1800s; its post office ran from 1880 to 1950.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
furnace ruins, old mine workings
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