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Lake City Lake Pepin Shore

Lake shore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: and dump glass near the old lakefront and boat landings..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Unknown (Public domain), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Lake Pepin (Mississippi River)

Lake Pepin port and reputed birthplace of waterskiing; eight LOC Sanborn editions, earliest read as June 1885.

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