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Superior Queen Creek silver and copper camp

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: mercantile ceramics, and mining hardware in creek banks and hillside privy fill..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1910s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Queen Creek

Camp for the Silver King and Magma mines on Queen Creek; Sanborn coverage from 1919 though the district dates to the 1870s.

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