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Bismarck (Missouri River steamboat landing and capital)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottles
AmberAlso reported: clay pipes, and salt-glazed stoneware; privy pits and back-lot dumps behind the 1880s business blocks and hotels drawn on the Sanborn sheets..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Wikited at English Wikipedia (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Missouri River
Missouri River port and Northern Pacific rail terminus; a major steamboat and military-freight hub for Fort Lincoln and the upper river, giving unusually dense 1870s-1880s deposits.
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