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Cedar Rapids (Cedar River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Brewery blob-tops, embossed druggists, oat-mill and merchant glass.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Cedar River astride the rapids, with the historic city and Mays Island in the channel; mill and rail district

Grew around the rapids and the grain-milling trade; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1884.

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