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Crested Butte coal town creek margins
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: miner's checks.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1893 historic-map era
A hard-coal company town from 1880 with a large Slavic and Italian workforce; creek margins and town-fringe dumps hold coal-camp refuse.
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