Is it legal to collect at Boggsville Santa Fe Trail stage settlement?

Permission required. The site is owned by the Pioneer Historical Society of Bent County and run as a public historic site, so detecting needs the society's consent and is unlikely to be allowed.

What can you find at Boggsville Santa Fe Trail stage settlement?

1860s Seated Liberty and Indian Head coins, trade goods, percussion caps and early cartridge cases, buttons, horseshoes, harness and wagon hardware, square nails

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Boggsville Santa Fe Trail stage settlement

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Nails and fittings

Also reported: trade goods, percussion caps and early cartridge cases, horseshoes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1866-1870s Santa Fe Trail stage stop and county seat

Adobe settlement founded in 1866 on the Purgatory branch of the Santa Fe Trail, where Kit Carson spent his last months and the Prowers house served as home, school and stage station. It was Bent County seat from 1870 to 1872 and declined once the seat moved back to Las Animas.View source →