Salt Lake City (Jordan River and Wasatch canyon creeks)

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottles

Codd and soda bottles

Crystals and minerals

Also reported: Dense 1880s-1900s territorial-era refuse: hand-blown Wasatch and Salt Lake Brewing beers, stoneware, and privy and creek-bank dumps behind demolished downtown and Warm Springs district blocks shown on the 1884 sheets..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Jordan River on the west edge of town, plus City Creek and Emigration, Parleys and Mill creeks draining the Wasatch