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Rausch Gap coal and railroad 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: Large cents, Indian Head cents, mining tools, 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
1828-1910 coal mining and railroad shop town
Largest of the coal towns in St. Anthony's Wilderness, a rail center for the Dauphin and Susquehanna Coal Company with offices and repair shops and about 1,000 people by 1860. The mine closed and the shops moved to Pine Grove in 1872; the railroad tore down most buildings and the last residents were gone by 1910.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
remote, old mine workings
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