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Pawtuxet River mill villages
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: A chain of textile mill villages along the river. In millrace fill, patent medicines, and clay pipes from the dense 1890s villages..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on South Branch of the Pawtuxet River, powering the Arctic, Phenix and Natick mill villages
LOC indexes this as Pawtuxet Valley with Sanborn sheets from May 1894, then 1898, 1903 and 1911, covering the Arctic-Phenix-Natick corridor.
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