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Wickes Alta silver smelter town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Seated Liberty and Morgan dollars, Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, 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
1877-1896 silver mine and smelter town
Silver town platted in 1877 for the Alta mine, which had 400 people by 1880 and about 1,500 by 1893 with a smelter, a Northern Pacific branch and a newspaper. The smelter closed after the 1893 silver repeal, the mine in 1896, and a 1901 fire burned the business district.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
smelter waste, mine workings
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