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White Bluffs Columbia River farm town

Ghost town Documented siteProhibited, look only

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

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

1861-1943 ferry landing and orchard town

Settlement founded in 1861 with a Columbia River ferry used by gold seekers bound for British Columbia, later an orchard and farming town. The federal government seized and burned it in 1943 to make way for the Hanford nuclear site.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

restricted federal nuclear site

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