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Grand Tower furnace town bank
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: slag.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Mississippi River village with 1860s-70s iron furnaces and coaling works below Tower Rock; slag-strewn bank and small-town lots record the failed industrial boom.
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