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Belleville German brewing and stove town
Old dump ground Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: foundry scrap.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
1889 historic-map era
German-settled county seat east of the Mississippi bluffs, thick with breweries, stove foundries and coal pits; ravine tips and mine-ground dumps ring the old town.
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