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Tonopah NV town lots

Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens

Also reported: [doc] Cobalt poisons, tool-top whiskies, drugstores.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).

Why this spot

1901-15 silver boom (just past your era, but the permission model is proven)

Wyatt Earp's Northern Saloon lot dig (private lot, owner permission): 618 bottles, cobalt poisons, tokens, coins.

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

Open shafts.

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