Iowa
Guttenberg (Mississippi River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Buttons and buckles
Sea potteryAlso reported: German-community brewery blob-tops, embossed druggists.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River German colony town at Lock and Dam 10; historic button and clamming shore
Strongly German settlement with river trades; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1886.
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