Des Moines (Des Moines River)

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottles

Old bottles

Sea pottery

Also reported: Brewery blob-tops.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Confluence of the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers; the capital grew on both banks around the old fort landing