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Pressmen's Home union headquarters town

Ghost town Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Wheat cents, Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, printing type, resort era items.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1911-1969 union headquarters and retirement town

Headquarters of the printing pressmen's union from 1911 to 1967, built around a former mineral springs resort, with a trade school, sanitarium, retirement home, hotel, chapel and its own hydro plant. The union left in 1967 and the retirement home closed in 1969.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

unstable and burned buildings

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