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Marker detail: Placer claim along Whitewood Creek, circa 1876
Photographer: Courtesy Robert Kolbe, Sioux Falls, South Dakota
Caption: Marker detail: Placer claim along Whitewood Creek, circa 1876
Additional Description: 1. "Long Tom" sluice box; 2. wood lean-to structures built over placer mine shaft; 3. windlass operation; 4. logs for shoring up the subterranean drifts; 5. tailings from placer mining operation
Submitted: October 19, 2023, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Database Locator Identification Number: p755581
File Size: 1.144 Megabytes

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