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Ruddock swamp logging ghost, Manchac
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Cypress logging company town on stilts in the Manchac swamp, wiped out by the 1915 hurricane and never rebuilt; pilings and refuse lie in the wetland.
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