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Elk Point road ranch town

Old dump ground 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

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

1859 stage road ranch on the Missouri bottoms road that became one of Dakota's first courthouse towns; original-townsite privies and road-side dumps hold territorial refuse.

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