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Sidney gold-trail outfitting strip

Old dump ground Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: cartridge cases.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Union Pacific town that boomed 1876-81 as the railhead of the Sidney-Deadwood gold trail, with a notorious saloon strip; early refuse pockets lie along the tracks and Lodgepole Creek.

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