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5. I posted previously on D.U. about my great-grandmother who died after falling into an abandoned mineshaft

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Sat Dec 28, 2024, 11:45 PM

Dec 28

in Franklin, N.J. My. original thinking was that the mine shaft was abandoned and not made secure. Maybe it was a sinkhole that opened up. She was walking home at dusk, 1890's when there was no electric lighting.

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Cause of sinkhole on I-80 in NJ revealed [View all] NJCher Dec 28 OP

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There is a national map of sinkholes NJCher Dec 28 #2

Interesting. I'll have to look it up. Seems like in Joplin, we had on a regularly scheduled basis, various SWBTATTReg Dec 28 #4

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I posted previously on D.U. about my great-grandmother who died after falling into an abandoned mineshaft 3Hotdogs Dec 28 #5

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