Idaho
Ketchum, ID
Wood River smelter and mining town
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Old bottlesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Big Wood River at Trail Creek
An 1885 Sanborn documents a built out smelter town at the head of the Wood River valley, a high value pre 1900 mining core sitting right on the river.
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