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St. Louis, MO

Major Mississippi River brewery and industrial city

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals
Old bottlesOld bottles

Also reported: 1840s-1900s brewery, whiskey, druggist.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1870s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River

Deep multi-decade Sanborn coverage of a huge brewing city on the Mississippi means extraordinary bottle density, best pursued through private old-lot and privy access.

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