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New Mexico
San Marcial (Rio Grande)
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Codd and soda bottlesAlso 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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