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Rosita silver camp and Custer County seat
Ghost town Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Seated Liberty and Trade dollars, Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, mining tools, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1872-1880s silver boomtown
Silver camp founded in 1872 that had over a thousand people and 400 buildings by 1874, a newspaper, and the Custer County seat from 1878. The ore ran out within a few years and Silver Cliff took the county seat in 1886.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
private land, mine workings
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