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Ruddock swamp logging ghost, Manchac

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos 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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