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Clinton (Mississippi 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: Sawmill-era worker refuse: brewery blob-tops, embossed druggists, and boarding-house domestic glass along the old mill riverfront.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River lumber-boom town on a wide bend; sawmill levees and log-raft landings

One of the great white-pine sawmill cities of the 1880s; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1885.

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