Illinois
Rock Island, Rock Island County Mississippi River city
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottles
Sea potteryPhotos 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 Mississippi River
Quad Cities industrial waterfront; the backwater sloughs collected a century of bottle refuse but much shoreline is now developed.
Keep exploring nearby
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