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Lead (Gold Run, head of Deadwood Gulch)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: carbide and blasting-cap tins, and privy fill on the steep lots shown on the 1885 sheet..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Gold Run Creek at the head of Deadwood Gulch; the Homestake lode-mining town
Company town of the Homestake Mine, the largest gold mine in the hemisphere; much of the original townsite was later undermined or moved, so the earliest Sanborn preserves the vanished street pattern.
Keep exploring nearby
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