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Purissima coastal farm village
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 cents, horseshoes, 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
1850s-1910s coastal farming village
One of the earliest settlements on the San Mateo coast, a farming village south of Half Moon Bay that by the early 1870s had a post office, stores, a school, the Purissima House hotel and a lumber mill. It faded as residents moved to Half Moon Bay and the Ocean Shore Railroad, which served it, shut in 1920.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
poison oakDense vegetation, highway traffic
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