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Grand Forks (Red River at the Red Lake River confluence)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: Riverfront and downtown deposits at and below the forks: embossed medicines, and stoneware; privies and dumps behind the 1880s commercial blocks and the steamboat levee area shown on the Sanborn..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Red River of the North
Named for the confluence (the forks) of the Red and Red Lake rivers, a fur-trade rendezvous and steamboat landing before the railroad, giving deep pre-town use.
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