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Iola Neosho River gas-boom town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: druggist glass embossed Iola.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Neosho River, east of the city

County seat on the Neosho that boomed with natural gas and zinc smelting around 1900; the 1884 Sanborn coverage predates the boom and frames the early core.

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