Wisconsin
Chippewa and Eau Claire river confluence
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Stoneware ginger beers
Old bottlesAlso reported: Lumber-boom brewery blob-tops, and sawmill and log-drive riverfront refuse..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on The Chippewa River at the mouth of the Eau Claire River
Chippewa Valley sawmill city at a river confluence; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1883.
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