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Guttenberg (Mississippi River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also 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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