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South Dakota
Rockerville flume camp remnant
Old dump ground Documented siteRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: cans.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
1878 placer camp that ran a seventeen-mile flume to wash Rapid Creek gravels, mostly abandoned within a decade; camp terraces and dump scatters remain in the gulch.
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