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Illinois
Meredosia fish town and first railhead
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: shell heaps.
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
Illinois River fishing and shipping village where the state's first railroad ran east in 1838; fish-house frontage, button-camp shell heaps and old lots span a century of river work.
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