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Manville mill village

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: A compact company mill village on the river. Along the millrace, patent medicines.

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Blackstone River in the town of Lincoln

LOC Sanborn coverage begins June 1896, then 1903, 1911 and 1921, marking a small but built-out bottle-era village.

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