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Singapore lumber port buried by dunes
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Large cents, Indian Head cents, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1836-1875 lumber port and wildcat-bank town
Speculative port town at the mouth of the Kalamazoo River with three mills, two hotels, stores, a wildcat bank that issued its own notes, and several hundred people by 1871. Clear-cutting to rebuild after the 1871 fires let blowing sand bury the town, which was vacated by 1875.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
shifting dunes
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