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Buffalo City swamp logging ghost town

Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: jars.

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

East Lake swamp logging and moonshine town of up to 3000 people from the 1880s to the 1940s, reached only by water; pilings and bottle scatters remain along Milltail Creek.

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