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Anoka Rum River Mill Town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: and privy-pit glass near the old mill races and riverbank dump layers..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Rum River and Mississippi River

Confluence milling town; eight LOC Sanborn editions, earliest read as May 1885.

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