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Naugatuck rubber works valley town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also reported: rubber-shoe scrap.

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

Why this spot

1895 historic-map era

Home of the US Rubber founding plants from the 1840s; a tight valley city whose factory fringe and house lots date to the privy era.

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