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Flat Iditarod-district gold camp

Ghost town Documented siteGray area
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
GoldGold
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: Barber and Mercury dimes, Liberty and Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, cans and can keys, stove parts, bottles.

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

Why this spot

1909-1920s placer gold boomtown

Gold camp that followed the Christmas 1908 strike on Otter Creek and reached about 6,000 people by 1914, with a school, stores, a hotel, a pool hall and a jail. A 1924 fire burned most of the town; it had 124 people by 1930 and the post office closed in 2004.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

remote fly-in onlyCollapsed buildings, active mining

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