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Midwest, Nebraska
Omaha NE
Old city privies and hill dumps
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Clay pipe stemsAlso reported: pre-1900 household relics.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Surrey County Council, David Williams, (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Why this spot
Missouri River outfitting and brewing city from 1854; its Victorian neighborhoods hold deep brick-lined privies full of embossed Omaha glass
Active digger threads on antique-bottles.net seek and report Omaha digs; embossed Omaha druggist and brewery bottles are an established collecting field
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Deep unstable pitsBuried utilities, broken glass
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