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Midwest, Kansas
Kansas City MO
West Bottoms stockyards district
Old dump ground Inferred from historyPermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Nails and fittings
Codd and soda bottles
Old bottlesAlso reported: hotel china, horseshoes.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0), Liz West (CC BY 2.0), Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Stockyards, packing houses and saloons filled this Kaw-Missouri confluence flat from the 1870s until the 1951 flood buried it in silt
District history and stockyard relics are well documented; actual digging finds here are word-of-mouth only, so tiered as inference
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Active rail linesContaminated fill, demolition debris, flood-prone banks
Keep exploring nearby
More spots in this area.