Iowa
Ottumwa (Des Moines River)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: Meatpacking (Morrell) and coal-camp refuse, brewery blob-tops, embossed druggists.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Des Moines River coal-and-packing city built on both banks around the old dam and mill race
Coal and meatpacking center on the Des Moines; earliest LOC Sanborn edition read is 1885.
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