Wyoming
Rawlins
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: Refuse pits and privies behind the Front Street and Cedar Street business blocks, Union Pacific division-yard and shop debris, bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Sugar Creek (small; rail-and-mining town)
LOC-confirmed earliest Sanborn 1883; Union Pacific division point and mining-supply hub of the transcontinental era, dry-country rail town.
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