Is it legal to collect at Virginia Dale Overland Trail stage station?

Permission required. The stage station and Hurzeler House are owned and maintained by the Virginia Dale Community Club, so detecting needs that owner's consent.

What can you find at Virginia Dale Overland Trail stage station?

Civil War era Seated Liberty and Indian Head coins, percussion caps, early cartridge cases, horseshoes and harness buckles, stagecoach hardware, square nails, buttons

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Virginia Dale Overland Trail stage station

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokens

Buttons and buckles

Nails and fittings

Also reported: percussion caps, early cartridge cases.

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

1862-1868 Overland Trail home station

Home station on the Overland Trail set up in 1862 by Jack Slade, keeping 30 to 50 horses and offering meals and overnight stays to stage passengers. It was abandoned after the Union Pacific was built in 1867, though ranch settlers moved in from 1872.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

highway traffic, private land

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