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Decorah Norwegian mill and brewery town

Riverbank Documented sitePermission required

What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Old bottlesOld bottles
Sea potterySea pottery

Also 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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