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Vermillion (Vermillion River near the Missouri)
Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Why this spot
1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Vermillion River near its Missouri River confluence; original town sat on the Missouri bottom before the 1881 flood moved it to the bluff
The great flood of 1881 destroyed the original Missouri-bottom townsite and the town rebuilt on the bluff, so the earliest Sanborn documents the relocated post-flood core.
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