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Marysville

Feather/Yuba confluence banks

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

GoldGold
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Photos 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.

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