Nebraska
Kearney (Platte valley boom town)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: beers.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Platte River, on the north bank opposite old Fort Kearny
Grew opposite the Fort Kearny military and trail site and boomed as a would-be industrial city in the 1880s, leaving concentrated bottle-era deposits.
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