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New South Wales
Joadja shale oil company ghost town
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: crockery, lamp parts.
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
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1870s-1900s kerosene shale valley town with retorts, terraces and a Scottish workforce, abandoned when the shale ran out; ruins and dumps fill the valley.
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