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South Dakota
Mystic Castle Creek mining and railroad town
Ghost town Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Coins and tokens
Nails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesAlso reported: Indian Head cents, cartridge cases, miners' candle holders, bottles.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1876-1930s placer camp, mill and railroad junction
Placer camp founded in 1876 as Sitting Bull, renamed Mystic in 1889, that drew two railroads, an experimental electrochlorination mill and the first electric gold dredge in the Black Hills. Floods and fires wore it down, and the Frink sawmill that replaced mining burned in 1936.View source →
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
flooding, trail traffic
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