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Silver Creek Clear Creek silver camp

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Also reported: Indian Head cents, mining tools, cartridge cases, 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).

Why this spot

1875-1930s silver mining camp

Silver camp first called Daileyville, settled about 1875 and incorporated in 1885, whose mines closed after the 1893 crash, reopened for World War I and shut again by 1922. The last residents left during the Depression.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

rough road, mine workings

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