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Ottawa Marais des Cygnes River town

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: and trade-era small finds tied to the former Ottawa Indian lands and early mills..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Marais des Cygnes River, through the city

Grew from the Ottawa Indian reservation and mission on the Marais des Cygnes; the 1884 Sanborn coverage frames the early townsite by the river.

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