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Midwest, Minnesota

Minneapolis

Bohemian Flats (drawdown watch)

Riverbank Documented siteRestricted

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: 1880s-1920s Minneapolis beers, immigrant household goods.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

Shantytown flats below the Washington Ave bridge

Proposed St. Anthony Falls-Ford Dam drawdown would expose a century of debris at the Flats (Racket); FOHBC documents Twin Cities collecting since the 1950s.

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