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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 bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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