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Iowa Hill divide hydraulic camp
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: melted glass.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
A rich 1850s drift and hydraulic camp on the divide above the North Fork American, burned repeatedly; dump scatters and cellar holes mark the old town.
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