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Times Beach dioxin-evacuated resort town
Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Wheat and Indian Head cents, Mercury and Roosevelt dimes, toys.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1925-1985 resort and Route 66 town
Times Beach was founded in 1925 on the Meramec River floodplain as a newspaper-subscription resort promotion and later became a working town of over 2,000 people on Route 66. Dioxin found in oil sprayed on its roads, plus a December 1982 flood, led to a federal buyout, evacuation by 1985 and demolition by 1992.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
former dioxin site
Meramec River flooding
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