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Custer (French Creek)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Old bottles
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: cut nails, tin, and privy-pit contents behind the wide-street business row the 1891 sheet lays out..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on French Creek, site of the 1874 Custer Expedition gold discovery and the first Black Hills rush
The original 1875 gold-rush town, briefly the biggest camp in the Hills before the crowd stampeded to Deadwood; the earliest Sanborn shows the shrunken but persistent county-seat town on French Creek.
Keep exploring nearby
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