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Digging in the dirt and uncovering Civil War era items at Salt Lake City’s Fort Douglas

(Brian Maffly | The Salt Lake Tribune) Archaeologist Jamie Burnett uncovers a bottle discovered Saturday during a public archaeological event at Fort Douglas Military Museum on Saturday, Sept. 22, 2018. Utility trenching exposed historically significant sites along Potter Street, once a busy thoroughfare through Fort Douglas, established by the U.S. Army in 1862 above the nascent Salt Lake City and what is now the University of Utah.