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Baltic Sprague cotton village on the Shetucket
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Coins and tokensAlso reported: crockery.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
The Sprague mills built one of New England's largest cotton villages here in the 1850s; tenement rows dumped down the Shetucket bank for decades.
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