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Petrolia oil boom town dumping grounds
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1895 historic-map era
Canada's first oil boom town, booming from the 1860s to the 1890s with hotels, foundries and hundreds of wells; boom-era refuse rings the old town.
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