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Red Cross Atchafalaya River rail 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: Indian Head and Wheat cents, 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
1908-1939 river and railroad town
A town of 100 to 200 people on the east bank of the Atchafalaya across from Melville, just north of the railroad bridge, with a post office application in 1908. Since 1939 the site has been inside the Morganza Spillway and was fully flooded in 1973 and 2011.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
floodway, river
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