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Silver City, ID

Owyhee silver ghost town

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: 1860s to 1900s saloon, druggist.

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

Why this spot

1900s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Jordan Creek

A 1903 Sanborn covers a genuine built out silver camp on Jordan Creek that was largely abandoned intact, making the creek side townsite one of Idaho's richest bottle-era ghost town leads.

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