American Fork (American Fork River and canyon mining)

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Coins and tokens

Also reported: 1890s-1900s townsite and canyon-tie refuse: local druggist and bottling glass, and river-bank and old railroad-grade dumps below the blocks on the 1890 sheet, with mining-camp debris up the canyon..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on On the American Fork River at the mouth of American Fork Canyon, which held the Miller and Dutchman silver-lead mines