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Belle Fourche (Belle Fourche River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: Railhead and cattle-shipping refuse near the stockyards, tracks, and privy fill behind the early Fifth Avenue blocks on the 1903 sheet..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Belle Fourche River near its junction with the Redwater River, at the northern edge of the Hills
Boomed after 1890 as a huge cattle-shipping railhead on the river, drawing off Deadwood's freight trade; the earliest Sanborn maps the young river town at its shipping peak.
Keep exploring nearby
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