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Rapid City (Rapid Creek)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: and privy-pit fill shown packed on the 1885 sheet..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Rapid Creek at the mouth of the canyon where the Black Hills meet the plains
Founded 1876 as the supply gateway between the Hills mines and the plains freight roads; the earliest Sanborn shows the frontier commercial core along the creek.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.