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Newburyport

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Coins and tokensCoins and tokens
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Shipbuilding, and clay pipes along the Merrimack wharves and old distillery lots..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mouth of the Merrimack River at the Atlantic

Federal-era shipbuilding and rum port at the Merrimack mouth; earliest LOC Sanborn read as May 1888.

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