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Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: Refuse pits behind the early Front Street and K Street blocks, coal-camp and Union Pacific mine-tipple debris, saloon and boardinghouse dumps, and immigrant-district ceramics..

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).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Bitter Creek

LOC-confirmed earliest Sanborn 1890; Union Pacific coal-mining town on Bitter Creek, dense multi-ethnic camp development.

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