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Wallace, ID

Coeur d'Alene silver district hub

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: druggist.

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on South Fork Coeur d'Alene River at Canyon Creek

An 1891 Sanborn shows a fully built out silver district hub wedged along the South Fork Coeur d'Alene River, a dense boom core beside water and a top bottle-era lead.

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