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San Marcial (Rio Grande)

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles

Also reported: patent medicines) in eroded riverbank cuts where the 1929 flood buried the town..

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Rio Grande

Destroyed by Rio Grande floods 1929; ghost site on state trust and railroad ground, exposed by erosion.

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