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South Dakota
Elk Point road ranch town
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos 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.
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.