Colorado
Aspen, CO
Roaring Fork silver boomtown
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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