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Midwest, South Dakota
Deadwood SD
Gulch camp dumps
Old dump ground Inferred from historyPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittings
GoldAlso reported: western whiskies, bitters, opium-era relics.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1876 gold rush camp in Deadwood Gulch; saloons and hurdy-gurdy houses threw refuse down Whitewood Creek and the side draws
Camp history and Deadwood-embossed bottles are richly documented; specific dump locations circulate privately among Black Hills diggers, so tiered as inference
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Mine waste arsenic in Whitewood Creek tailingsSteep unstable slopes, rattlesnakes
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