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Central City, CO

Gregory Gulch gold camp

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: 1870s to 1890s saloon, brewery.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Gregory Gulch, a tributary of North Clear Creek

One of Colorado's oldest camps, densely mapped by Sanborn and built right in the gulch, offering deep early-date refuse.

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