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Wilkeson coal and sandstone town

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: coke-oven brick, miner's gear.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Coke ovens and the sandstone quarry that faced Washington's capitol built this 1880s town; oven-row fringes and gulch dumps hold company-era refuse.

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