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Parsons Labette Creek and Neosho basin railroad town

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: druggist glass embossed Parsons.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Labette Creek through town, in the Neosho River basin; the Neosho River lies a few miles west

MKT railroad shop town on Labette Creek in the Neosho drainage; included as a confirmed 1884 Sanborn town with water through the townsite, though its water is a creek rather than a main-stem river.

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