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Folsom, CA

American River gold-and-rail town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1860s-1910s saloon.

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

Why this spot

1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on American River

A Gold Rush railhead on the American River with Sanborn coverage, its river-bluff privies and Chinatown dumps are deep, productive bottle-era ground.

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