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Lewistown Big Spring Creek trade town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1904 historic-map era

Central Montana's trade hub grew from an 1880s Metis settlement and gold camps in the Judiths; creek-bank and gulch dumps ring the old grid.

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