Colorado
Trinidad, CO
Purgatoire River coal and trade town
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: 1880s to 1910s saloon, brewery, druggist.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Purgatoire River (Rio de las Animas Perdidas)
A Santa Fe Trail and coal town on the Purgatoire with dense Sanborn coverage offers deep, ethnically varied bottle deposits.
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