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Yuma Colorado River crossing

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: Steamboat landing and territorial prison era trash on the Colorado bank: applied top whiskeys, and river trade debris in the old townsite and levee fill..

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

Why this spot

1890s+ Sanborn-mapped town on Colorado River

Major steamboat port and river crossing; Sanborn coverage from 1893 and the arid bank preserves glass well.

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