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Arkansas
Sneed farm community destroyed by the 1929 tornado
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Buttons and buckles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Indian Head and Wheat cents, storm debris.
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
post-Civil War to 1929 farm community
Sneed was a rural farm community founded after the Civil War with a church and school side by side. On April 10, 1929 an F5 tornado, the only one ever recorded in Arkansas, nearly wiped it out along with Pleasant Valley, and the death toll reached 23.View source →
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