Montana
Virginia City, MT
Alder Gulch placer-gold camp
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Old bottlesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Alder Gulch (Ruby River drainage)
Sanborn coverage confirms a still-standing gold-rush camp on Alder Gulch, one of the richest placer grounds in the territory for bottle-era glass.
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