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Bellevue (Mississippi River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: embossed druggists, and clamming and fishing camp refuse along the shore.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River town below the bluffs at Lock and Dam 12; small historic packet landing

Earliest LOC Sanborn edition read for Bellevue is 1885.

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