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Moosup River mill village

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Buttons and bucklesButtons and buckles

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), Unknown (Public domain).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

A chain of cotton and woolen mills ran the Moosup River through the 1800s; millpond edges and tailraces collected village refuse.

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