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Diamond City Confederate Gulch placer boomtown
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Gold
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: percussion caps and early cartridge cases, square nails, mining tools, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), BLM Alaska (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1864-1870 placer gold rush
Boomtown for Confederate Gulch, where the Montana Bar was one of the richest placer strikes per acre ever found; around 10,000 people worked the gulch in 1866 and it produced $19 to 30 million in gold. When the gold ran out in 1869 and 1870 residents simply left, with about 60 left by 1871 and four families in the 1880s.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
unstable hydraulic spoil banksRough road, remote
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