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Damascus lumber railroad town

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: crockery.

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

Boomed 1900s-1920s as a Hassinger lumber railhead stripping Whitetop spruce; creek-side lots and fill date from the sawmill decades.

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