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Hawkesbury Long Sault sawmill waterfront

Riverbank Documented siteGray area

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Also reported: clay pipes.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

The Hamilton Brothers mills here were among the largest sawmills in the British Empire in the mid-1800s, driving a century of waterfront fill on the Ottawa.

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