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Saint Cloud Mississippi Granite City

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also 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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