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Hope Turnagain Arm gold camp
Tidal foreshore Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Old bottles
Gold
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: tins.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
An 1896 placer rush built this camp on Turnagain Arm before the Klondike drew the crowd away; cabin rows and tide-flat edges hold camp refuse.
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