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Michigan Bluff hydraulic terrace town
Old dump ground Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Hydraulic camp where Leland Stanford kept store in the 1850s, moved uphill when the diggings undermined it; terrace dumps hold camp refuse.
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