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Anaconda, MT

Copper smelter town on Warm Springs Creek

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1880s-1910s smelter-worker saloon.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Warm Springs Creek (upper Clark Fork drainage)

Sanborn maps show a large company smelter town beside the creek, and the immigrant smelter workforce left dense saloon and household bottle discard.

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