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Phoenix Salt River townsite

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: and hotel and saloon glass in filled privy shafts..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Salt River

Earliest LOC Sanborn of 1889; most of the old townsite is now under modern downtown, so intact ground is rare and access driven.

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