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Silver Plume Clear Creek silver camp
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: mining candlesticks.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1886 historic-map era
Miners' town below the Pelican-Dives workings, paired with Georgetown by the 1884 loop railroad; hillside dumps and backlots date the silver decades.
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