Colorado
Creede, CO
Willow Creek silver boom camp
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: 1890s saloon, dance-hall.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Willow Creek, a tributary of the Rio Grande
A single-season 1892 boom squeezed into a slot canyon and captured by Sanborn makes for concentrated, sharply dated deposits.
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