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Chamberlain (Missouri River crossing)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: tin cans, and privy fill behind the first hotels and saloons near the old landing..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Missouri River, east bank at the Big Bend reach; railroad ferry and later bridge crossing
A booming Milwaukee Road railhead and Missouri crossing in the mid-1880s; the first Sanborn captures the raw end-of-track town along the water.
Keep exploring nearby
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