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Davenport (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: Crescent and Independent brewery blob-tops, embossed druggists, steamboat-era glass along the old levee.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River waterfront across from Rock Island; major levee and rail-river transfer point

Earliest LOC Sanborn edition read for Davenport is 1886.

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