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Wendling Booth-Kelly company lumber town

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: Indian Head and Lincoln cents, Barber and Mercury dimes, cartridge cases, 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).

Why this spot

1899-1946 company sawmill town

Company town built in 1899 by the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company, served by a Southern Pacific branch from 1900. Fires hit it in 1910, 1917 and 1922, and the closed mill's superstructure burned in 1946; the post office ran until 1952.View source →

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