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Midwest, North Dakota

Bismarck-Mandan

Steamboat riverfront

Riverbank Inferred from historyRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: 1870s-90s meds, ales.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1872-1900

Head-of-rail steamboat transfer point from 1873; the 2021 drought exposed an 1892 steamboat wreck upstream - low water exposes era material on this reach. No documented digs.

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