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Colorado
Tercio CF&I coal and coke town
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: miners' lamp parts, cartridge cases, 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
1902-1915 company coal and coke town
Third coal town of Colorado Fuel and Iron, set in the upper South Fork of the Purgatoire near New Mexico, which by 1910 employed 1,000 men and housed 300 families. A 1904 dust explosion killed 19 miners, coking declined from 1913, the mine closed in 1915 and the post office in 1949.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
old mine workings, remote
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