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Tucson Santa Cruz townsite

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
AmberAmber
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: Deep territorial layers along the old presidio and Meyer Street district: hand blown squares, Chinese Bao Ding and opium tins from the barrio, and Mexican olive jar shards near the acequia lines by the Santa Cruz..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Wikited at English Wikipedia (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Santa Cruz River

Oldest continuously settled townsite in the state with the earliest LOC Sanborn coverage of 1886; privy digging in the old barrio is legendary but almost all under pavement or private lots.

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