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Osage City coal shaft town
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: miner's lamps.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1899 historic-map era
Santa Fe railroad coal town of the 1870s-90s with dozens of shallow shafts and immigrant miner neighborhoods; shaft dumps and house-lot privies hold the mining decades.
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