Nebraska
Grand Island (Platte River UP division town)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryPhotos 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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