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Electric Mills company sawmill ghost

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: enamelware.

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

Sumter Lumber Company town of 1912-1941, all-electric mill with hundreds of houses, dismantled when the timber ran out; foundations and dumps sit in regrown pine.

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