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Spearfish (Spearfish Creek)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: and privy-pit fill behind the earliest Main Street row shown on the 1885 sheet.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Spearfish Creek at the mouth of Spearfish Canyon on the northern Black Hills front
A farming and milling supply town at the canyon mouth rather than a placer camp, but firmly on the creek; the earliest Sanborn shows its 1880s frame core.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.