Late 1880's hot spring hotel

[fortunehunter]

I have been talking to a curator at our local museum.The main reason the town was established in 1840 was because of the healing mineral spring.It was originally called Sour Lake Spring.Now just Sour Lake.I found the spring bed,now dried up,and it has really grown over with trees.Looking at a picture at the museum the grand hotel was 50 yards south of the springs.It burned down around 1917.I stepped off 50 yards south but cannot find any evidence of anything ever being there.Anything found other than coins will be donated to museum.Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.Fortune Hunter.

[Zodiacdiverdave]

If you are in the general area I would start by looking for high concentrations of iron, (nails and spikes). There should be lots in the ground where the hotel was. I am detecting a site of an old store that burnt and am finding lots of iron that has the halo effect around them so at first I thought I was getting silver because of the high numbers, once I dug them up they turned out to be nails.
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ZDD

[sphillips]

How about in the dried up spring bed, did people hang out in there?