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Rock Bluff Missouri River outfitting 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, 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
1854-1900s steamboat landing and freighting town
Rock Bluff was a Missouri River crossing settled in 1854 that outfitted freighting trains in the 1850s and by 1877 had almost 200 people, three stores, two saloons, a billiard hall, a race track and the Naomi Institute college. The Omaha railroad bridge and a rail line ten miles west drew trade away; the post office closed in 1904 and the town was gone by the 1940s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
river bluffs, old coal workings
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