Montana
Fort Benton, MT
Head of Missouri River steamboat navigation
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottlesAlso reported: 1860s-1890s steamboat-era whiskey, freight and cargo debris along the levee and old warehouse row.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Missouri River (head of navigation)
Sanborn coverage confirms a built-out river town and the Missouri levee was the busiest freight landing in the territory, so bottle-era debris concentrates here.
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