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Mound City naval yard riverfront
Riverbank Documented siteGray area
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea pottery
Nails and fittingsPhotos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
Victorian bottle era, historically mapped
Ohio River town whose marine ways assembled and repaired Union gunboats in the 1860s and built barges after; ways ground and flood-prone lots hold war-era and later refuse.
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