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Took me three evenings to finally find a ghost town called Dover on a 1870s map of Kansas

I kept scanning for something labeled Dover in the usual spots where maps put towns but it turned out the surveyor wrote it in tiny cursive right on a river bend, hidden behind a crease, and I only spotted it after I held the map up to a window at sunset.
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logan263
logan26328d ago
Actually Kansas wasn't a state until 1861, not the 1870s.
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anthony_jackson
Man I feel your pain, finding hidden town names on old maps is brutal.
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