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Grand Island (Platte River UP division town)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

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 Platte River, on the north channel of the braided Platte

A Union Pacific division point and heavy German immigrant settlement in the central Platte valley, producing dense domestic bottle deposits from the 1870s.

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