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Aspen, CO

Roaring Fork silver boomtown

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: bitters.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Roaring Fork River

Multiple pre-1900 Sanborn sheets over a wealthy silver town on a live river point to rich, well-dated deposits.

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