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Hawkesbury Long Sault sawmill waterfront
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsAlso 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.
Keep exploring nearby
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