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Bonaparte Des Moines River mill town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery
Nails and fittingsNails and fittings

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Victorian bottle era, historically mapped

Van Buren County mill town of the 1830s with dams, locks and woolen and grist mills on the Des Moines River improvement; mill ground and main-street backlots hold pre-1900 refuse.

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