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Winona Mississippi Riverfront

Riverbank Source-confirmed findsGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Codd and soda bottlesCodd and soda bottles
Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: Sawmill and steamboat-landing debris, and privy-pit glass along the old levee and sandbar sloughs between the levee and Latsch Island..

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

Why this spot

1880s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Mississippi River

Major 19th-century lumber and grain river port; six LOC Sanborn editions on file, earliest read as January 1884.

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