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Rio Grande City

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: and 1890s glass from a lower-river shipping point; privy pits behind the old brick commercial buildings near the landing.

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on The Rio Grande, at an old steamboat landing on the lower river

Lower Rio Grande steamboat landing and border-trade town; the river commerce laid down distinctive Mexican and European material.

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