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Riceville tannery 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 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
1890s-1906 bark extract and tannery settlement
Settlement around a bark extract works converted by James Rice into a tannery making sole leather from buffalo hides, with 136 people in 1890 and a school of 21 pupils in 1900. The tannery burned in 1905 and the township was empty by 1910.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
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