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That Tuesday I found a whole lost town on a 1790s map
I was just flipping through a stack of old maps I bought at an estate sale for $15. On a 1792 survey of upstate New York, I noticed a tiny settlement called 'Millsford' that I'd never heard of. Looked it up online and it turns out the place vanished completely after a flood in 1814 wiped out the mill. I spent the whole week cross-referencing it with modern topo maps and even found the old road bed. Has anyone else stumbled on a forgotten place like this on an old map?
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the_wren1mo ago
I can barely find my keys in the morning, you found a whole town.
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@the_wren same energy as me trying to find my phone while holding it lol. A friend of mine once bought a box of old photos at a yard sale and found a whole wedding album from the 1920s with nobody in it labeled. She spent months tracking down the great-grandkids through a genealogy site and ended up mailing the photos back to them.
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