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Blackstone Falls mill city
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: A dense early mill city. Along the river gorge, patent medicines, and clay pipes from the crowded 1800s worker districts..
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 Blackstone River at Pawtucket Falls, the birthplace of American water-powered industry
LOC Sanborn coverage starts November 1884 and continues 1890, 1902 and 1916, a classic bottle-era industrial town.
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