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The Buxton Wonders was a small club of black baseball players formed in Buxton, Iowa running from approximately 1900 to 1911.[1]
The town of Buxton, Iowa was a company town founded by the Consolidation Coal Company in 1900. It remained a productive coal mining town until at least 1919. During many of those years, the company and town were host to the Buxton Wonders, and the team also toured much of Iowa and the surrounding states.
In 1911, the Indianapolis Freeman listed G. L. Neal and R. Salles as the managers of the Buxton Wonders, and list the team address as 34 East Fourth Street in Buxton, Iowa.[1]
A partial team list includes: George Bowman Frenchy Brown Dee Williams Skinny Wilson Mule Armstrong Ed Lee George Neal Walter Taylor Herman Brooks Lefty Pangburn
In 1938, the Federal Writers Project Guide to Iowa reported that the site of Buxton was abandoned and that the locations of Buxton's former "stores, churches and schoolhouses are marked only by stakes." Every September, hundreds of former Buxton residents met on the former town's site for a reunion.[2]
The abandoned Buxton town was the subject of archaeological survey in the 1980s which investigated the economic and social aspects of material culture of African Americans in Iowa