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Ansonia, Naugatuck River brass town
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: bitters.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Naugatuck River just above its junction with the Housatonic
Brass and copper manufacturing town crammed along the river; dense mill-worker housing and factory backlots.
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