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Hot Springs (Fall River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: and privy fill on the tight canyon lots the 1891 sheet shows..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Fall River, fed by warm mineral springs, in a sandstone canyon on the south edge of the Hills

A warm-springs health resort that boomed in the late 1880s with sandstone bathhouses and hotels; the earliest Sanborn documents the young resort town along the river.

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