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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 fittingsNails and fittings
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also 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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