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Iowa, Wisconsin

McGregor (Mississippi River)

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

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

Also reported: embossed druggists, grain-warehouse and merchant glass.

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River steamboat and wheat-shipping town in a bluff notch opposite Prairie du Chien

Boomed as a wheat port before the railroads shifted trade; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1886.

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