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Decorah Norwegian mill and brewery town
Riverbank Documented sitePermission required
What you could find
Reported finds from this ground.
Old bottles
Sea potteryAlso reported: brewery ware.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Sheila Sund (CC BY 2.0), NPS (Public domain).
Why this spot
1899 historic-map era
Upper Iowa River town settled heavily by Norwegians in the 1850s, with mill dams, breweries and bluff-side ice caves; mill races and old brewery ground hold period refuse.
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