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California
Marysville
Feather/Yuba confluence banks
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Gold
Codd and soda bottlesPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: BLM Alaska (Public domain), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1850 gold-rush river port (1857 Marysville sodas exist)
Professional diggers work this region's privies with permission; the river-mud angle below the old landings is the unworked layer.
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Hydraulic-mining slickens buried the 1850s waterfront deep in places.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.