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Clifton San Francisco River copper camp

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: mescal and beer glass, smelter worker household ceramics, and mercantile tins along the river terraces and steep back lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on San Francisco River and Chase Creek

One of the earliest Arizona copper camps, repeatedly flooded which buried and preserved layers; Sanborn coverage from 1893.

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