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Midwest, Illinois
Galena IL
Lead-boom river town
Riverbank Inferred from historyPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: pontiled meds.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1830s-50s lead-mining steamboat port - town froze when the boom died
Inference; the freeze is what preserves the early horizon.
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