Minnesota
Saint Cloud Mississippi Granite City
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: and dump glass in privies and fill along the Mississippi banks near the old downtown landing and quarry-worker districts..
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River
Upper Mississippi granite and milling center; nine LOC Sanborn editions, earliest read as August 1884.
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