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Brigham City (Box Elder Creek near Bear River Bay)

Tidal mudflat Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: and creek-bank and back-lot dumps behind the Main Street blocks on the 1884 and 1890 sheets..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on At the mouth of Box Elder Canyon on Box Elder Creek, just east of the Bear River Bay marshes of Great Salt Lake

Box Elder County seat and cooperative center; the 1884 first edition is a solid pre-1900 anchor for the early commercial district at the canyon mouth.

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