Iowa
Clinton (Mississippi River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso 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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